Bitcoin : Theymos on /r/bitcoin: If the bug was exploited they (Bitcoin Core devs) would rollback the transactions, similar to the DAO. I thought BTC was supposed to be immutable?
Quote from theymos:
>Stored funds are not at risk, and never were at risk. **Even if the bug had been exploited to its full extent, the theoretical damage to stored funds would have been rolled back**, exactly as it was in the value overflow incident. However, there is currently a small risk of a chainsplit. In a chainsplit, transactions could be reversed long after they are fully confirmed. Therefore, for the next week or so you should consider there to be a small possibility of any transaction with less than 200 confirmations being reversed.
> https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9hkoo6/new_info_escalates_importance_upgrading_to_0163/
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**Edit**:
It seems by some of the comments in this thread that some misunderstood the point of this post. It wasn’t to say whether BTC Core devs would be right or wrong in rolling back BTC if there were transactions that were exploited from the bug they introduced. The point of the post was to say, that BTC is not fully immutable, as is always suggested by Core devs. This post just helps to highlight that it is not and put their hypocrisy on display. Bitcoin is not fully run by artificial intelligence just *yet*, which means, that yes humans still pull the strings – and that Bitcoin is not 100% immutable.
Bitcoin is new technology in the big scheme of things. I don’t think that in 10 years Bitcoin will be anything like it is today. It is evolving every day, and in the future Bitcoin may be very different than it is now. Maybe BTC is not as immutable as people were made to believe. Maybe it’s a sliding scale with different degrees of immutability. For example with ETH and the DAO, it’s safe to say it’s less-immutable than BTC or BCH. Whatever your thoughts, maybe it’s time for people to actually think for themselves and not just believe what Core devs tell them all the time, because clearly, they aren’t being fully honest with you or themselves.
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