* [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain
@ 2011-09-06 15:21 Gavin Andresen
2011-09-06 15:24 ` Steve
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From: Gavin Andresen @ 2011-09-06 15:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bitcoin Dev
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.
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Gavin Andresen
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain
2011-09-06 15:21 [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain Gavin Andresen
@ 2011-09-06 15:24 ` Steve
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From: Steve @ 2011-09-06 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gavin Andresen; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev
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.
>
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