From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting NODE_BLOOM: Proposed BIP
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:19:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DB35F1.5020603@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150821220603.GC7450@muck>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-24 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-21 4:46 Matt Corallo
2015-08-21 5:38 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 5:42 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 17:55 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21 22:06 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-22 1:08 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-22 1:48 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-24 15:19 ` Tom Harding [this message]
2015-08-24 17:39 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-22 1:08 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21 5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-21 5:55 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 6:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-21 6:07 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 22:15 ` Chris Pacia
2015-08-21 22:25 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 23:08 ` Tom Harding
2015-08-24 15:21 ` Mike Hearn
2015-08-21 8:31 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-08-21 17:53 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 15:29 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 17:37 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 17:41 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 17:58 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-24 18:00 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-24 18:07 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 18:15 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-24 18:28 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 18:30 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 18:33 ` Eric Lombrozo
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