Core needs to distance itself from attacks made "in its support" #7406

issue dskloet opened this issue on January 24, 2016

dskloet commented at 5:58 PM on January 24, 2016: none

People are doing vile things, supposedly in support of Bitcoin Core. These attacks reflect very badly on Core. Some examples:

Censoring large forums to hide the existing of other teams/clients. DDoS'ing Bitcoin XT nodes and pools. DDoS'ing Coinbase. Removing Coinbase from bitcoin.org

Since these things reflect very badly on the Core team, it would be good to have a public announcement, distancing the team from such attacks and discouraging those attacks since they are not helping anyone.
jonasschnelli commented at 6:13 PM on January 24, 2016: contributor

Check this: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/website/pull/58/files
laanwj commented at 3:51 PM on January 25, 2016: member

Don't open non-code-related issues here

(offtopic: I agree with respect to DDoS attacks on nodes not helping anyone, and when that was the case I spoke out against it)
laanwj closed this on Jan 25, 2016
dskloet commented at 6:01 PM on January 25, 2016: none

Where should non code related issues be filed?
MarcoFalke commented at 9:16 PM on January 25, 2016: member

Where should non code related issues be filed?

It really depends on the issue but yours best matches https://github.com/bitcoin-core/website
dskloet commented at 9:21 PM on January 25, 2016: none

Thanks! Done https://github.com/bitcoin-core/website/issues/75
kanzure cross-referenced this on Jan 25, 2016 from issue Core needs to distance itself from the attacks made "in its support" by dskloet
rebroad cross-referenced this on Aug 26, 2016 from issue Provide bloom services to whitelisted nodes. by rebroad
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