[Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-05 Thread Sergio Lerner
I would like to share with you a vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol I've been thinking of which might have impact on the future of Bitcoin. Please criticize it! *The Freeze on Transaction Problem * The freeze problem occurs if someone publishes a transaction with fees much higher than the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Sergio Lerner sergioler...@certimix.com wrote: I would like to share with you a vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol I've been thinking of which might have impact on the future of Bitcoin. Please criticize it! The Freeze on Transaction Problem I should point

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com I should point you to some of the tools that have been discussed in the past which are potentially helpful here: Ah, I should also mention a somewhat more far out approach which helps here as a side effect: If transactions were

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jorge Timón jti...@blockstream.io wrote: In any case, it is interesting to think about this things since mining subsidies will eventually disappear and then transaction fees will ALWAYS be higher than subsidies. You can imagine that instead of subsidy Bitcoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-05 Thread Jorge Timón
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Something you might want to try to formalize in your analysis is the proportion of the network which is rational vs honest/altruistic. Intuitively, if there is a significant amount of honest hashrate which is refusing