This patch is just a quick stop-gap hack to address the transaction spam. More robust solutions which are vendor-agnostic (i.e. not specific to SatoshiDICE) are being evaluated and refined. Why is the transaction spam a problem?
SatoshiDICE is taking advantage of the early stage of Bitcoin, at a time when transaction volume is too low to fill the blocks and bring fees up to a level that would make up for the drop in subsidy. If Bitcoin was fully mature, it will not be vulnerable to this type of transaction spam and no one would be talking about it let alone suggest patches, because fees would make the dust spam economically unviable.
The problem is that we do not have a mature network, and we're in the bootstrapping phase. SatoshiDICE is consuming the "startup capital" (current state of low fees, high subsidy, and lots of free space in blocks) to profit without bringing a corresponding increase in growth of Bitcoin adoption. The simple fact is that a relatively small handful of gambling addicts and bots are flooding the block chain with 70%+ of its transactions.
This is not good.
Topic: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? - page 7. (Read 14715 times)
How do you suggest they implement a ban of the patch exactly?
Edit:So you are suggesting they ban a ban... Yo Dog I heard you like bans...
Edit:So you are suggesting they ban a ban... Yo Dog I heard you like bans...
Isn't it up to the miners what tx they do and don'tinclude? How would you enforce a ban?
Someone has offered up a patch to kill the satoshidice transactions (and by extention bitcoin itself.)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1598258
This poll is to determine whether or not the bitcoin community, specifically the bitcoin police in this forum, should enforce an outlaw of the patch.
There is still time to vote!!!
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1598258
This poll is to determine whether or not the bitcoin community, specifically the bitcoin police in this forum, should enforce an outlaw of the patch.
There is still time to vote!!!
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