The proposed fix is to add a new rule on how
fees are handled. Some amount of every fee should be considered as burned
and can never be spent. I will propose 50% of the fee here, but there may
be better numbers that can be discovered prior to putting this into place.
If we'd like miners to
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com
wrote:
How about this for mitigating this potential attack:
1. Limit the memory pool to some reasonable number of blocks-worth of
transactions (e.g. 11)
2. If evicting transactions from the memory pool, prefer to evict
: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution
described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the block size limit
How about this for mitigating this potential attack:
1. Limit the memory pool to some reasonable number of blocks-worth of
transactions (e.g. 11)
2. If evicting
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Raystonn . rayst...@hotmail.com wrote:
That does sound good on the surface, but how do we enforce #1 and #2?
They seem to be unenforceable, as a miner can adjust the size of the memory
pool in his local source.
It doesn't have to be enforced. As long as a
There was this wonderful technology invented a few years ago to deal with spam.
It's called Hashcash. All these hacky heuristics like block size are just
dancing around the problem, and the natural solution is already present in
bitcoin: smaller blocks, (down to the point of individual
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:06:00PM -0400, Bob McElrath wrote:
There was this wonderful technology invented a few years ago to deal with
spam. It's called Hashcash. All these hacky heuristics like block size are
just dancing around the problem, and the natural solution is already present
in
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:33:54PM -0700, Raystonn . wrote:
the attack would be expensive.
For attacks being waged to destroy Bitcoin by filling all blocks with spam
transactions, the attack succeeds when the attacker is well funded. This
gives well-funded private and/or public entities
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:13:10PM +, Patrick Mccorry (PGR) wrote:
With the 0.01mBTC/KB minimum
relay fee and $230 USD/BTC that works out to about $2.3kUSD/GB of ram
IIRC, the fee is 0.1mBTC, so it's $23/MB (assuming 1,000 tx * 2.3 cents) and
$23k/GB (assuming $23 * 1000, as each $23 is
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