Completing the retirement of the alert system
Sep 10 - Sep 10, 2016
- In a bitcoin-dev email thread on September 10, 2016, Johnson Lau suggested publishing the private key a few months after the final alert.
Andrew C questioned why not just publish the key a few days after the alert instead. The reason for waiting, according to Lau, is that if someone was offline during the final alert, they may see a scam alert instead and miss the legitimate one.
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