-Dave
Naw, the other alt coins aren't on the same blockchain. They merely act as a distraction; our wallets see them and consider them, but ultimately our wallets reject them because they don't conform to fundamental NDL chain
why are these other alts connecting at all? someone mispublish a port number somewhere? willful attack?
i'm thinking willful attack, i just notice that even though they identify as various differnent altcoins they all
seem to have the same startingheight
All it takes is one person's wallet to connect to one of these other coins, then those wallets tell our wallets about its other wallets etc. The current wallet is programmed to connect to all wallets with the proper pchMessage code. Since, when Noodlyappendagecoin was created, it was programmed with the same pchMessage code as Litecoin (and other alt-coins that weren't modified properly), our wallets see these as valid nodes until they realize that they aren't on the same blockchain (which can take a while). Our wallets may give each node several hours to try to provide proper blockchain info, but during that time our wallets will incorporate all that other wallets' nodes to our list of nodes. In other words, its a mess.
still seems like a willful attack using this vulneratbility.
it's very odd (suspicious) that all the 'different' altcoins have the same blockchain height (total number of blocks.)