On 2017-01-26 19:49, Michel Behr wrote:
It seems like a deadlock: Bitcoin deals with money (very serious), but
ports offer no guarantee, and naive users put their trust on ports.
Ideas: even more explicit messages like "IF YOU LOOSE YOUR BTCs IT'S
YOUR PROBLEM"; plus a specially rigorous criteria to let the package
in ("Mr Maintainer: if you don't update this at least monthly (?) and
follow these directives we will take this port out").
Bitcoins are held in the form of a private key.
Anyone with the least responsibility will back up the private key to a
secure backup such as an A4 paper, before transfering any Bitcoins to
it.
The real issues with a broken port would be transmission of bitcoins to
the wrong address. I dare say that that never will happen ever.
Loss of private keys is not a problem as the wallet can be recovered
from backups.
Internal malfunction in the node implementation would either lead to a
crash, or would break when another peer is validating its contents.
Conclusion: BitcoinD is as safe as or safer than on other platforms.
Reflections?
