Not forgetting, simply deferring discussion on that. We’ve a much smaller
limit to deal with right now. But even that limit would have to go to remove
this attack.
From: Btc Drak
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:07 PM
To: Raystonn .
Cc: Peter Todd ; Bitcoin Dev ; Patrick Mccorry (PGR)
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution
described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . <rayst...@hotmail.com> wrote:
No, with no blocksize limit, a spammer would would flood the network with
transactions until they ran out of money.
I think you are forgetting even if you remove the blocksize limit, there is
still a hard message size limit imposed by the p2p protocol. Block would
de-facto be limited to this size.
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