Probabilistic disconnections could make it quite hard to debug protocol implementations and increases the risk of flaky behaviour in the wild significantly. I don't see why a simpler solution isn't better. The most likely failure mode of this is not an attack but the same as previous breakages - scaling or legitimate version skew that causes problems as the network evolves. Agree with Luke that non-standard transactions should not be considered an attack. If you stay with the scoring system I'd be tempted to have a flag (defaults to 100) that sets a minimum threshold for the badness scores and ignores any below that. Attacks based on sending transactions that aren't syntactically valid don't seem likely to me, this isn't a good way to DoS somebody because discarding them is so cheap. If it turns out later there is a problem, people under attack could flip the flag until a new version is released. The formula for the DoS score in the case of invalid signatures/merkle roots seem unnecessarily elaborate. An invalid signature should never occur and could always result in immediate disconnection. Treating a block with too many sigops as invalid means legitimate relayers might be treated as an attacker if/when the constant changes in future. I'd suggest not treating this as an attacking situation at all. Why use a mutable field with a const setter? Unit tests that rely on sleeps like this can be flaky because the OS delay isn't always precise, not to mention slow/irritating to run. It's better if tests can override the clock, eg, if GetTime() did something like if (nMockTime) { return nMockTime} else { ... } then unit tests could reliably modify and advance the clock in a fast/efficient manner.