<story><title>Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>BIP150[0] adds peer authentication, BIP151 adds encrypted peer communication. Having them implemented and enforced is probably overdue - afaik so far i&amp;#x27;ve only seen bcoin[2] implement it&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;bips&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;bip-0150.mediawiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;bips&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;bip-0150.mediawi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;bips&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;bip-0151.mediawiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;bips&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;bip-0151.mediawi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bcoin-org&amp;#x2F;bcoin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bcoin-org&amp;#x2F;bcoin&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>If you’re concerned about this type of attack it’s pretty easy to defend against. All it takes to avoid partition is a single connection across a VPN, Tor, or even satellite (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockstream.com&amp;#x2F;satellite&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockstream.com&amp;#x2F;satellite&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>