Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:29:06
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Tamas Blummer [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-23 📝 Original message:You mean an isolated ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-01-23
📝 Original message:You mean an isolated signing device without memory right?

An isolated node would still know the transactions substantiating its coins, why would it sign them away to fees ?

Tamas Blummer

On Jan 23, 2015, at 4:47 PM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:

> Correct, plus the most likely scenario in such attack is that the malware even don't push such tx with excessive fees to the network, but send it directly to attacker's pool/miner.
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> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Alan Reiner <etotheipi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, one major attack vector is someone isolating your node, getting you to sign away your whole wallet to fee, and then selling it to a mining pool to mine it before you can figure why your transactions aren't making it to the network. In such an attack, the relay rules aren't relevant, and if the attacker can DoS you for 24 hours, it doesn't take a ton of mining power to make the attack extremely likely to succeed.
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> On 01/23/2015 10:31 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote:
>> Not a fix, but would reduce the financial risk, if nodes were not relaying excessive fee transactions.
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