12 sats \ 7 replies \ @arrowdrive 24 Apr 2022 \ on: Is OP_CTV opening up new potential attack vectors on bitcoins censorship resistance? bitcoin
No one can force you to use one of these wallets though. There’s plenty of selection to choose from if a few wallet providers decide to comply with this sort of regulation. Most are also open source, so you or someone else can fork it to remove this requirement.
Doesn’t seem like a big issue to me.
Nobody could force me to take the covid jab, but they managed to manipulate, scare and coerce most people to take it. Anything other than Pfizer or Moderna was discouraged and or forbidden. Most critics was ridiculed and censored.
Bitcoin can be attacked in a similar way. Apple Store and Google Play Store rules can be leveraged against us. Only apps using CTV and x conditions will be allowed. A coordinated media campaign can be leveraged against us. Search engines can hide alternatives, and social media can flag and remove dissenting voices.
CTV will make these kind of attacks easier to scale, no multisig necessary.
The simple fact that bitcoin is hard to understand from a technical stand point, and that the legacy system seem to be singing on its last verse may give us enough time to avert attacks like this. Hopefully we will onboard enough people with the right adversarial mind set and understanding of free open source software to make attacks like these totally unfeasible.
But i still have a hard time accepting a change to bitcoin core consensus that make its security worse. BTW i also had a hard time accepting taproot.
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So what you are trying to say is that you are afraid that Bitcoin will be attacked by media campaigns, not by CTV code itself...
In this case you are totally biased.
Bring proofs, technical proof that BIP119 can harm Bitcoin not bullshit propaganda. Propaganda doesn't work on Bitcoin.
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But i still have a hard time accepting a change to bitcoin core consensus that make its security worse
How does CTV make security worse?
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If its easier to attack its security is worse. Also when complexity at the base layer builds up the attack surface increace. But as people say it may not be a big deal. Felt the same with taproot increasing the attack surface wrt quantum computers.