[Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit
Btc Drak
btcdrak at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 22:07:44 UTC 2015
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . <raystonn at 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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