From: Steve <shadders.del@gmail.com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:24:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E663B1B.7000503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0kBPJfdrKYcp0qHxDRdhYYbAwQ7wuwkwUF97rgSDNnKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Is this the ArtForz solidcoin 'attack'?
On 07/09/11 01:21, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the
> main bitcoin block chain:
> http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f
>
> Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs
> from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk
> space usage.
>
> The fix is this patch:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491
>
> Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know
> about the potential problem?
> I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with
> the patch, but we may have to.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-06 15:24 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-06 15:21 [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain Gavin Andresen
2011-09-06 15:24 ` Steve [this message]
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