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Bitcoin has an enemy.
Environmental alarmists, stubborn central bankers, and out-of-touch politicians will certainly count, even if their rank has faded over the past few years.
There are also some odd boomer economists who have no intrinsic value in Bitcoin, and if that means extra engagement, then Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and still dive into the opportunity to embody the Greater Fool theory.
All of these archetypes are fantastic heels that routinely serve as sounding boards for Bitcoin discourse.
Others have attacked Bitcoin for boredom, curiosity, or just fun. I think it’s a bit cooler.
This is the story of the Punk Helvent, who does his best to mess with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin will be cast on this day
This story dates back to 1987, more than 20 years before Bitcoin.
An unknown student at the University of Wellington in New Zealand is believed to have developed a malware known as Stoned, one of the first computer viruses in history.
Stoned is an early boot virus (mostly floppy disks at the time), a category that infects the boot sector of hard drives or removable media, which changes the way a computer first loads the operating system and performs other necessary boot functions.
It was technically a new virus, but in reality, Stone was a more elaborate prank.
Infected machines have an eighth chance to load a screen that simply displays a Propot message.
“Your PC is now stoned! We’re legalizing marijuana!”
Check the lower right corner – you’ve been stoned!
27 years later, on May 15, 2014, a pseudonymous Windows 7 user reported a worrying false positive from the Microsoft Security Essentials package.
Microsoft’s built-in Antivirus software detected Stoned virus signatures in Bitcoin’s blockchain data, resulting in constant annoying pop-ups and even deleting all related files.
This included deleting the full copy of the chain history needed to synchronize the nodes. The nodes were at the time roughly 19 GB in size and contained data that was automatically redownloaded by Bitcoin clients.
It didn’t make sense what Stone really had. I’m infected Bitcoin core. Virus code is completely benign, even if it is written in some way throughout the chain.
The running theory was that perhaps due to a statistical anomaly, the Bitcoin hash function in that block header somehow generated a hexadecimal byte sequence of stones for Microsoft’s malware scanner to recognize it as a real virus.
Microsoft then quickly patched security essentials to ignore curiosity.
The smoking gun only came in about six weeks by professional Didier Stevens. That was not a hoax. Someone intentionally tried to defeat a Bitcoin node.
From April 4, 2014, Stevens discovered a series of transactions that feature outputs containing the same byte sequence as the byte sequence in Stoned’s code.
Meanwhile, two days ago, a post by an anonymous author outlined how to specifically spam Bitcoin to trigger false positives from antivirus software.
They write: “Spam the Bitcoin database with a virus signature causes chaos. Some antivirus programs will delete the database locally.
“Some people can’t launch Bitcoin client again (and don’t understand why). Some people format and reinstall their computers. They get “infected” again when they get a Bitcoin client again. ”
Panic then attacks “Computer N00B” with rumors that Bitcoin is spreading the virus. After that, the media has made the situation into a drama.
“The value of Bitcoin will fall quickly… Help spam the Bitcoin database with a virus signature 🙂
Stoned Bytecode was injected into Bitcoin chain data within about a day of post.
Of course, there was no broad panic. Bitcoin prices did not crash related to mischief and there was no significant drop in the hashrate noded offline.
But there were forum threads about it, as well as media headlines, blogs and other posts that included this 11 years later. It has to be counted for something.
– David
From the pod
Recently, Bitcoin is increasingly splitting up with spam whether it is actually a virus, unlike the stone stone pole.
“We were always shit-hosted when they broke in. Don’t make any mistakes.
These are passionate terms from Chris Guida, Bitcoin ecosystem developer who supports stopping non-standard data.
