That was a tiny instantaneous attack im meaning a continuous one and yes the small one was wiped in one block but how would it cope if every 8MB block was full its going to take a considerable longer time to verify which means the creator of the block has a good head start while the others are mining on just the headers while its verified meaning more empty blocks
there is a very simple reason why this won't happen.
it's because the only people who've ever spammed the bitcoin blockchain are also the creators of bcash.
So you think they spammed there selves also, LOL.
Paranoid much.
Notice the only coin to ever complain of spam transactions is segwitcoin, maybe because every other coin has higher transactions capacity.
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LOL. According to my research the BCH chain was spammed HARD about 12 hours before BTC was. Believing that these attacks were not related or done by the same person is just silly. BCH was hammered, then BTC was hammered as a retaliation. Only difference is that BTC STILL HASN'T RECOVERED YET and BCH bounched back after ONE BLOCK, derp.
The spam attacks in 2016 and early 2017 were of an unknown origin, but based on their level of technical skill, were likely done by devs with a good knowledge of the block and fee structures. Blockstream had a natural incentive to do the spam attacks themselves, because at that time they almost had everyone scared into adopting Segwit due to the high level of unconfirmed transactions and high fees.
@tomcat it's hard to believe a Senior member here wouldn't understand spam? Read up on the history of email spam and I think you'll begin to understand the issue.
For anyone looking for evidence of spamming, here are some old spam transactions on the BTC blockchain:
https://blockchain.info/address/3QQB6AWxaga6wTs6Xwq8FYppgrGinGu15fNote that the output address isn't valid - this means that no coins changed hands, only a fee was paid. Note also that the amount keeps increasing over time. I believe this attack cost something along the lines of $200k in fees, calculated at $3kUSD/BTC. Could've been a state actor, or someone with deep pockets,
