On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: > Anyway, it's trivial to DoS the entire Bitcoin network today. It > hasn't ever happened. Maybe one day it will, but the only rationale > people can come up with for such an attack beyond random griefing is
Which happens and is a concern. Altcoins have been attacked on things we fixed. For example, litecoin nodes were being run out of disk space through addr.dat flooding. I think we've been generally fortunate that the level of griefing is low (though not non-existent). But part of the reason its been low is that it's probably harder to DOS attack bitcoin than you believe. In the reference client a lot of work has gone in to removing attacks with sublinear cost for the attackers. That people aren't attacking much now is not an argument to accept a new vulnerability much less a _normative_ vulnerability in the protocol. That it's no big deal even attacked would be a fine argument to me, so I'll go try to convince myself of that. > governments, Please don't put that kind of black helicopter junk in my mouth. I agree with you the point that these aren't a source of concern for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
