Bitcoin Cash ABC adds a controversial 'checkpoint': Is it centralized?
Quick Take
- On November 15th, a checkpoint update was made to the Bitcoin Cash ABC client
- The checkpoint is a line of code that helps protect against block reorganization attacks, an attack where a separate chain is mined in “secret” with greater hash-rate support until it has greater accumulated proof of work
On November 15th, an update was made to the Bitcoin-ABC client, merged by Amaury Séchet (deadalnix), the lead developer of the ABC client.¹ It was officially released on November 16th in version 0.18.4 and ignited a lot of controversy in the community for the inclusion of one feature: a “checkpoint” that was added. The checkpoint […]
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