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matt | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bitcoin is comparatively simple! Lightning maybe less so 😅
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Big Barry Bitcoin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Surprising to hear that considering all the different components that can be attacked and abused...

- Peer discovery
- mempool
- utxo set db
- bitcoin script
- pinning attacks 


Etc.
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matt | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Have you ever taken a serious look at TLS/X.509/Certificate Authorities/DNS Poisoning/BGP Hijacking……..? :)
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Big Barry Bitcoin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No, but it feels intuitive that something that serves one purpose (AFAIK) would have less attack vectors than one that has many endpoints.
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matt | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You might be surprised :)