From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fee drop
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:51:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0PhQqgPLRFG8h2-Xo0t-ooBAVgOwJ_w3Y0nxRZ5jfmzZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140225044116.GA28050@savin>
Just pushed out a mempool janitor change to
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3753 The goal was to create
a simple bolt-on change, and /not/ rewrite the mempool code.
I'll be running some metrics on what does and does not get into the
mempools of my public nodes for 48 hours, ending Friday ~midnight EST.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
> So, just to be clear, we're adding, say, a memory limited mempool or
> something prior to release so this fee drop doesn't open up an obvious
> low-risk DDoS exploit.... right? As we all know, the network bandwidth
> DoS attack mitigation strategy relies on transactions we accept to
> mempools getting mined, and the clearance rate of the new low-fee
> transactions is going to be pretty small; we've already had problems in
> the past with mempool growth in periods of high demand. Equally it
> should be obvious to people how you can create large groups of low-fee
> transactions, and then cheaply double-spend them with higher fee
> transactions to suck up network bandwidth - just like I raised for the
> equally foolish double-spend propagation pull-req.
>
> Of course, there's also the problem that we're basically lying to people
> about whether or not Bitcoin is a good medium for microtransactions.
> It's not. Saying otherwise by releasing software that has known and
> obvious DoS attack vulnerabilities that didn't exist in the previous
> version is irresponsible on multiple levels.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-25 4:41 Peter Todd
2014-02-25 7:34 ` naman naman
2014-02-25 12:40 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-02-25 12:55 ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-25 14:49 ` Peter Todd
2014-02-25 16:55 ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-25 17:13 ` Peter Todd
2014-02-25 18:09 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-02-28 11:18 ` Peter Todd
2014-02-25 22:43 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-02-26 22:51 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-02-28 4:50 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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