Bitcoin Address Blacklists Found in Gentoo Linux
Bitcoin Address Blacklists have been found in the Gentoo Linux bitcoind 0.9.3 distribution. The patch was deployed by Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr (aka Luke-Jr), who maintains the Gentoo distribution. A bug report was posted to Gentoo's bug repository: net-p2p/bitcoind and net-p2p/bitcoin-qt enables ljr use flag by default, breaks bitcoin. The official bitcoind and bitcoin-qt in Gentoo enables patches which breaks Bitcoin by default. Please disable the ljr patches by default or preferably all together. Enabling the [ljr use flag] results in errors like these: 2014-10-05 11:38:09 ERROR:....
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