📅 Original date posted:2011-09-06
🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin block chain is being attacked with transactions with lots of outputs, leading to excessive disk space usage. A patch has been suggested to fix the issue.
📝 Original message:Is this the ArtForz solidcoin 'attack'?
On 07/09/11 01:21, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the
> main bitcoin block chain:
> http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f
>
> Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs
> from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk
> space usage.
>
> The fix is this patch:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491
>
> Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know
> about the potential problem?
> I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with
> the patch, but we may have to.
>
Steve [ARCHIVE] /
npub1lm…h8rda
2023-06-07 02:22:41
in reply to nevent1q…nkac
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