Good morning e, > mostly thinking out loud > > suppose there is a "lightweight" node: > > 1. ignores utxo's below the dust limit > 2. doesn't validate dust tx > 3. still validates POW, other tx, etc. > > these nodes could possibly get forked - accepting a series of valid, > mined blocks where there is an invalid but ignored dust tx, however > this attack seems every bit as expensive as a 51% attack
How would such a node treat a transaction that spends multiple dust UTXOs and creates a single non-dust UTXO out of them (after fees)? Is it valid (to such a node) or not? I presume from #1 it never stores dust UTXOs, so the node cannot know if the UTXO being spent by such a tx is spending dust, or trying to spend an already-spent TXO, or even inventing a TXO out of `/dev/random`. Regards, ZmnSCPxj _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
