Can Github Remove the Bitcoin Codebase? Recent Repository Takedown Has Propon...
On October 23, the Microsoft-owned Github leveraged an ostensible DMCA takedown in order to remove 18 projects from the code-hosting portal. According to sources, the takedown stemmed from a request filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Github’s recent move has made the crypto community quite leery of the platform and some proponents are scared that cryptocurrency codebases like Bitcoin’s can be taken down by government forces. This week the RIAA got the Microsoft-owned Github to remove a number of projects from the code-hosting portal. The code....
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Why bother installing CPU-mining malware on thousands of machines, when you can just break into someone's Amazon cloud computing account and create a well-managed datacentre instead? This week, a software developer discovered someone had done just that, and made off with a pile of litecoins on his dime. Melbourne-based programmer Luke Chadwick got a nasty shock after receiving an email from Amazon. The firm told him that his Amazon Key (a security credential used to log on to Amazon Web services) had been found on one of his Github repositories. Github repositories. Github is an online....
The internet hosting and software development subsidiary of Microsoft, Github, has partially unbanned the Tornado Cash repositories following the recent sanctions enforced by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). Github’s decision follows the U.S. Treasury updating the public, noting that U.S. persons can copy, view, and discuss the open-source code. Github’s partial reinstatement lets repository visitors look at the Tornado Cash codebase in read-only mode.
Github Reinstates Tornado Cash Repositories in Read-Only Mode
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The word “fork” is somewhat confusing because there are different kinds of “forks” that can mean very different things. Codebase ForkA codebase fork is a copy of the code of a software implementation. A codebase fork typically makes tweaks to the original codebase. In the context of Bitcoin, ...
Recent debates about whether people should be allowed to make their own changes to the bitcoin protocol have highlighted an important notion: perhaps developing Bitcoin Core, the reference version of the code, isn't the only way for people to contribute. A recent alteration to the bitcoin code that made its way into a Linux variant called Gentoo left some people fuming before the developer switched it off by default. "These will never be merged into the bitcoin repository on Github, but people that want to use them can," bitcoin lead developer Wladimir J van der Laan said. But what is....
The developer who found the vulnerability requested developers to sign their revisions with the GPG key to ensure all their revisions on the project can be verified. Major developer platform GitHub faced a widespread malware attack and reported 35,000 “code hits” on a day that saw thousands of Solana-based wallets drained for millions of dollars.The widespread attack was highlighted by GitHub developer Stephen Lucy who first reported the incident earlier on Wednesday. The developer came across the issue while reviewing a project he found on a Google search.I am uncovering what seems to be....