Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Raystonn .
e point by someone with a large short position in BTCUSD. -Original Message- From: Peter Todd Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:18 PM To: Raystonn . Cc: Patrick Mccorry (PGR) ; Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-trans

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Peter Todd
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:01:34PM -0700, Raystonn . wrote: > >There will always be a blocksize limit based on technological > >considerations - the network has a finite bandwidth limit. > > A bandwidth limit is not the same as a blocksize limit. Bandwidth > is unique to every individual. Miners

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Raystonn .
: 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 . wrote: No, with no blocksize limit, a spammer would would flood the network with transactions until they

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Btc Drak
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . 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 p

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Raystonn .
-Original Message- From: Peter Todd Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 2:44 PM To: Raystonn . Cc: Patrick Mccorry (PGR) ; Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit On Mon, Jun 0

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit

2015-06-08 Thread Raystonn .
ers, which is a nicely antifragile response for the Bitcoin network. -Original Message- From: Peter Todd Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 2:33 PM To: Raystonn . Cc: Patrick Mccorry (PGR) ; Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dr