Re: Development of alert system

Participants: lfm

Quote from: mizerydearia on August 23, 2010, 08:50:04 AM

Quote from: lfm on August 23, 2010, 05:28:14 AM

Quote from: FreeMoney on August 23, 2010, 05:23:13 AM

I really don’t even like the idea of one person having ability to send messages. Even if I/we trust that person now, we might not later, or it might be a different person, or they might get tortured/bribed/blackmailed.

It’s open source! If you don’t trust Satoshi or think he is going to be coerced, replace his key with your own so only you have the power to shutdown your nodes.

It would require a lot of effort for everyone to change keys or to upgrade to a new version. This should be recognized by those that are still using old versions even as far back as 0.3.0 and maybe even earlier.

It doesn’t require a lot of effort if its a simple option,either in a config file or a command line switch. It might not even be a default, could be opt-in. Some people would welcome it as insurance that they will not be causing problems in an emergency.