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This is nothing new. It happened in the past and will happen again.

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 05, 2017, 09:13:01 AM

Its more then likely some people who are trying to prove that bitcoin need bigger blocks (Bitcoin Unlimited/Roger verr)?

Or some rich miners just wanted to bump up the fees. If you are large enough miner, you can benefit if the network is clogged and users start throwing large fees to hasten their transactions. I don't know if this is possible, just a theory.

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Quote from: aso118 on May 05, 2017, 10:16:33 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 05, 2017, 09:13:01 AM

Its more then likely some people who are trying to prove that bitcoin need bigger blocks (Bitcoin Unlimited/Roger verr)?

We do need bigger blocks, but such attacks are unlikely to influence people.
They are unsustainable too. Why would you continuously burn money just to prove a point?

They don't burn any money because it's the miners who are spamming the network. They are confirming their own spam transactions so they actually don't lose any money while giving us cancer.

Well played, wutang ju, well played.

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guys is there anyway to know if there is a spam attack or is it only normal transactions ??
I mean yeah 100k is huge , but bitcoins now is all over the news which may give a reason why there are many transactions atm
personally when the price start moving like this I start to move my bitcoins from different sites , for example I start to move my gambling investments to poloniex in order to trade or lend , but in normal days I don't do that

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 05, 2017, 09:13:01 AM

Its more then likely some people who are trying to prove that bitcoin need bigger blocks (Bitcoin Unlimited/Roger verr)?

We do need bigger blocks, but such attacks are unlikely to influence people.
They are unsustainable too. Why would you continuously burn money just to prove a point?

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Nobody have any incentive to attack bitcoin network with spam transactions like this other than the one behind bitcoin unlimited to create FUD that block size must be increased Grin

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on May 05, 2017, 09:27:34 AM

Spam attacks have always been around... even if we HF to 2M, 4M or 8M, OR Segwit gets activated, these attacks will still come. Nothing to worry about.

A Bigger block will be enough to accommodate a lot of spam attacks.
You will not be feeling worried about that, but the more people will get stuck n the bitcoin network due to the increase of unconfirmed transaction and the fees.
This will make them thought to use off-chain transactions due to the spam attack and scaling problem of bitcoin.
It's bad in my mind.
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Spam attacks have always been around... even if we HF to 2M, 4M or 8M, OR Segwit gets activated, these attacks will still come. Nothing to worry about.

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why "warning" i though something horrible had happened!

and this is nothing new, and it seems like nobody is interested enough in it to do anything about it. miners are enjoying their higher earnings and everyone else is busy fighting over nothing with repeated arguments.

i haven't seen any solid arguments about "Who is doing the spam attacks?" we just keep repeating bitcoin is not anonymous then.
and i am not talking about conspiracy theories or pointing fingers. i am talking about some solid proof of someone doing some serious blockchain analysis and finding where these money for spam attacks are coming from.

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Its more then likely some people who are trying to prove that bitcoin need bigger blocks (Bitcoin Unlimited/Roger verr)?

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Fees today are over $2 to send a transaction. 100k transactions in mempool. Someone is spending a lot of cash to spam the network today.

Gee I wonder why? /s

I don't know much about mobile wallets or hardware wallets but they should alert the user when the network is this congested. With a easy to understand fee calculator/prediction pop up before you send your transaction.

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