Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs (opens in new tab)

Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this

It's certainly a point of trust, but ultimately it's the miners who decide how Bitcoin works. So far this has predominantly worked by them using software from bitcoin.org and upgrading it relatively frequently, but this would probably change very quickly once they stop thinking of the bitcoin.org developers as working in their interest.

There are alternative full-node implementations. A couple examples:

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/btcd

https://darkwallet.unsystem.net/

This seems like a reasonably strong claim - and has the post title, "Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty":

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/

The corruption explained there matched the pattern seen in representative cases supplied by the core team.

The core team may not have yet awarded the bounty, and there were a few other possibly contributing factors regarding proper use of LevelDB on OSX before the above work... but there's certainly a strong case made that a real fix has been discovered and deployed.

It's been claimed (see the other replies). Just waiting on confirmation that this fixes the problem entirely before paying out, I believe.

Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/

> has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..

Care to provide details?