I cannot find the words to express how deeply I want this movement to be safe from the very threats I just watched materialize during my watch." "I have failed you as a leader, and am completely devastated by today's discoveries…It is a crushing blow. Not some vendor."ĭefcon denied those accusations, but took full responsibility for allowing the theft. How many users called for the shutdown of SR2 to fix the problems? They were ignored," writes a user named aqualung on the site's forums. "Something's not correct: The bug…can't be made responsable if bitcoins are missing now!" writes a user named pathfinder. "Transaction malleability," after all, has been a known issue with Bitcoin for two years, and is described by most Bitcoin security experts as more of a major nuisance than a real threat that would allow funds to be stolen.
Silk Road's users, predictably, didn't take the announcement at face value, and many instead suspect that the site's staff have used the "transaction malleability" bug as a scapegoat to cover their own incompetence-the site has been plagued with more pedestrian bugs since launching in November-or even that they've run off with the users' bitcoins themselves.
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