Well if the attacks stopped it's a good news for sure.
But it won't resolve the scaling issue
These are anti-fragility "tests" that are going to make bitcoin stronger. Many suggest the Core developers are being stubborn, but their insistence on sticking to the technical facts instead of be swayed by politics or motivated out of fear by attacks like these is something to be respected.
What have we learned from these attacks?
1) Some wallets need to optimize their dynamic tx fee estimates or include it as a feature . Core seemed to handle it the best but was a tad aggressive from my tests
2) We have a serious problem with old nodes relaying low fee tx's past 72 hours. Solution- More nodes need to upgrade to Core 0.12 or a classic equivalent(some fork of 0.12 testing) that purges tx's after 72 hours, has mempool limiting / upload limiting and other benefits to be more resilient in attacks like these .
3) We do need a dynamic tx fee market because that is exactly what allowed people like me to still tx normally for a few pennies more. By simply increasing capacity and keeping fees set at 2-3 pennies on average it would allow for attacks to occur with flat costs that could drown out legitimate tx's . It is a small price to pay a few pennies more for 3 days in order to insure that an attacker cannot permanently burden our network at will.
