"This is some function related to cryptography. I don't know what it does exactly, and maybe I have found a real EPIC FAIL."
Maybe before you wrote your 1000 word article with custom made illustration you could have spent a little timing digging in the code and understanding what this function actually does? Or at least ask some bitcoin devs their opinion? If you have actually found a vulnerability in bitcoin and disclose it that way it's not even sloppy, it's irresponsible.
1) This is a joke. Perhaps unfortunate translation. Below it is written that the risk is small: You see, it's a popular trend nowadays to find epic errors related to security. But this one is most likely a tiny bug or even a correct piece of code written purposely.
it appears that bitcoin devs are dragging their feet here. to quote gmaxwell (the author of the PR),
> it would catch any case where the public keys and the secret keys in the wallet didn't agree with each other, either due to corruption or due to malicious modification (e.g. so that newly issued keys were really someone elses private keys). How much thats worth I dunno.
"This is some function related to cryptography. I don't know what it does exactly, and maybe I have found a real EPIC FAIL."
Maybe before you wrote your 1000 word article with custom made illustration you could have spent a little timing digging in the code and understanding what this function actually does? Or at least ask some bitcoin devs their opinion? If you have actually found a vulnerability in bitcoin and disclose it that way it's not even sloppy, it's irresponsible.