📅 Original date posted:2015-08-24
📝 Original message:On 8/21/2015 3:06 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:55:58PM +0000, Matt Corallo wrote:
>> Anyone have the best reference for the DoS issues?
> Well actually, we can reference the DoS attacks that Bitcoin XT nodes
> are undergoing right now - part of the attack is repeated Bloom filter
> requests to soak up disk IO bandwidth.
So, to summarize, someone is attacking Mike Hearn's bitcoin fork.
Therefore, now is the perfect time to write a BIP and author changes
that begin the process of dropping support for the most broadly
successful class of wallets, which Mike Hearn's SPV client library enables.
Tom Harding [ARCHIVE] /
npub1ms…pmwjy
2023-06-07 17:37:35
in reply to nevent1q…puzs
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