Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:16:44 -0500

On 03/13/2015 05:08 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> That definition would include all SPV clients?

Don't SPV clients announce their intentions by the act of uploading a
filter?

> I get what you are trying to do. It just seems extremely tricky.

Certainly the protocol could be designed in a way that provides
finer-grained access controls and connection limits, which would make
the situation more clear.

What I'd actually like to see is for network users to pay for the node
resources that they consume, so that anyone who wants to place
increased load on the network would compensate node operators for the
burden:

http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/2015/02/09/economic-fallacies-and-the-block-size-limit-part-2-price-discovery/

Absent that kind of comprehensive solution, problems like this will
continue to recur.