BitShares Forum

Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 04:11:07 am

Title: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 04:11:07 am

Back in BTT forum I was advocating DPOS for the zennet guys to use it. CoinHoader has a deep knowledge in DPOS and defended it well to what the other user think about DPOS and its disadvantage.  The Zennet project is a very ambitious one but with huge potential. Just imagine if it is using DPOS technology. Hopefully we can convince them.

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: fluxer555 on November 16, 2014, 05:42:10 am

What is the so called "kill switch" vulnerability?

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: gamey on November 16, 2014, 06:33:26 am

Kill switch ??  Tell us more !!

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 07:19:10 am

According to the forum user named Huntercrafterminers , "kill switch": an ability of the genesis block generator to erase the whole chain and restart it. To the rest of I3 team , is this possible? or the guy is only spreading FUD?

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: xeroc on November 16, 2014, 02:09:40 pm

FUD. Nothing to add

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: bytemaster on November 16, 2014, 02:18:32 pm

The same holds true for bitcoin too.

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 02:29:10 pm

The developer may consider other 2.0 technologies that are available . The original choice was DPOS. What made them seek alternatives was a comment from a guy I think is a part of the team. As I mentioned , CoinHoader did a point by point why the developer must choose DPOS. 

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: fluxer555 on November 16, 2014, 03:27:28 pm

Quote from: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 07:19:10 am

According to the forum user named Huntercrafterminers , "kill switch": an ability of the genesis block generator to erase the whole chain and restart it. To the rest of I3 team , is this possible? or the guy is only spreading FUD?

How is this technically accomplished?

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: xeroc on November 16, 2014, 09:21:07 pm

You just change the harcoded genesis block in the client .. just what all altcoins do

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: toast on November 16, 2014, 09:26:45 pm

Calling it a kill switch is plain FUD. You can make forks of anything and convince people to switch.

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: luckybit on November 09, 2015, 01:00:06 am

Quote from: jwiz168 on November 16, 2014, 07:19:10 am

According to the forum user named Huntercrafterminers , "kill switch": an ability of the genesis block generator to erase the whole chain and restart it. To the rest of I3 team , is this possible? or the guy is only spreading FUD?

Is this still possible?

Title: Re: Is so called "kill switch" a DPOS vulnerability?
Post by: Empirical1.2 on November 09, 2015, 01:48:07 am

I remember CoinHoarder, smart guy. Positive about lots of BitShares innovations but was against dilution. Hasn't been around here a lot since.

Love this line   :)

Quote from: CoinHoarder on November 02, 2014, 09:25:13 pm

If I see someone say "they just don't see the big picture" one more time I'm going to flip shit.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,10903.msg143785.html#msg143785