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Originally Posted by Zyber
Thanks. Very interesting.  
Then it is only the single-point-of-failures which could cause trouble later on.
If someone blocks port 8333, takes over those the IRC chat rooms, replaces the DNS records for bitcoin.org, or the actual server, etc. |
Bitcoin doesn't need IRC. It *can* use it to seed its list of peers. I run my clients with IRC switched off. I personally think it is a stupid way to seed the client.
Also, with one click you can make Bitcoin run on top of Tor so blocking port 8333 does nothing.