📅 Original date posted:2017-11-25
📝 Original message:On 11/21/2017 01:16 PM, Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> 2. SegWit signatures can be cheaper to verify (linear instead of
> quadratic). Prior to this, DoS attacks were possible by using forged
> transactions including signatures which could take several minutes to
> verify.
Where can I find more resources on this described DoS attack?
And how does SegWit prevent this if using SegWit transactions are not enforced?
Thanks
CANNON [ARCHIVE] /
npub145…6gmta
2023-06-07 18:07:51
in reply to nevent1q…3zxr
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npub145wc7mvqwpndzrtzxq2nqszthnq9cq4kcpx7nwl48uqtyfzw0nmse6gmtaPublished at
2023-06-07 18:07:51Event JSON
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