Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blocking uneconomical UTXO creation

2013-03-11 Thread Tadas Varanavičius
On 03/12/2013 12:39 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > RAM is used as a database cache. > > But regardless, what kind of attack are you thinking of? Using up all > available disk seeks by sending a node a lot of fake transactions that > connect to unspent outputs, but have invalid transactions? You'll get > y

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blocking uneconomical UTXO creation

2013-03-11 Thread Tadas Varanavičius
On 03/12/2013 12:19 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Firstly, the UTXO set is a LevelDB, it's not stored in memory. Outputs > that never get spent are not in the working set by definition, after a > while they just end up in the bottom levels and hardly ever get > accessed. If need be we can always help Lev

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blocking uneconomical UTXO creation

2013-03-11 Thread Tadas Varanavičius
On 03/11/2013 08:17 PM, Benjamin Lindner wrote: > The problem of UTXO in principal scales with the block size limit. Thus it > should be fixed BEFORE you consider increasing the block size limit. > Otherwise you just kick the can down the road, making it bigger. Let's assume bitcoin has scaled u