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Title is wrong. Should be "How _not_ to launder $4Bn worth of Bitcoin".

I can't find Ethereum on this diagram. Is this just for Bitcoin and its forks?

Is this a JDBC connector for Ethereum? If so, that's neat. Ethereum APIs are generally awful, so a known, sane language for interacting with the blockchain has to be welcome.

> a diff-friendly format ... it's easy for patches to update the database without exploding the git repo size due to giant binary diffs

Interesting - I understood that Git stores whole files, not diffs, so I'm surprised this is a significant feature.

> This whole thing seems to stem from the authors inability to reproduce and understand the problem.

It's up to issue reporters to clearly demonstrate an issue, not for authors to try to recreate every rumoured bug.

Not surprised the maintainer gave such short shrift. These commenters should provide a clear fix or demonstration that re-publishing will fix the problem, or just use the previous release. There's also nothing stopping them forking the project and publishing their own 2.8.29-foo as uglify-js-bar and getting on with their lives. Being rude to open source maintainers is very unlikely to make them more helpful.