Questions tagged [spam]
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What if some group of people start sending small transactions from wallet to wallet just to make the blockchain bigger?
What if some government start using their computers to move the tiniest amount of Bitcoin possible, from wallet to wallet, just to make the blockchain REALLY big? Is this possible?
And also, is it possible to generate large amounts of transactions…
Guelando 2
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What's the best way to get rid of 1 satoshi dust?
I recently noticed an old address of mine had 1 satoshi sent to it in some dust spam transaction. The thought of this satoshi bloating the UTXO set for everyone bothers me. I'd like to "destroy" it, but I don't want to combine it with other inputs…
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Why is Enjoy Sochi a malicious spam attack
I recently read the following thing on reddit:
The two transactions for .00000001 BTC are a malicious spam attack.
They were sent without fees, which means that if you wallet doesn't
allow you to choose specific outputs your balance is tied up…
Salvador Dali
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Should there be a minimum transaction limit to prevent dust spam?
With all these reports of people receiving spam through dust transactions (e.g. Enjoy Sotchi, Bitwars etc) what would be the implications of setting a minimum transaction amount on the network? Why would anybody wish to send 1 Satoshi (0.00000001…
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Could Bitcoin dust spam be effectively combatted by actually including it in the block-chain?
After reading this question I got interested in these mysterious spammers who sent satoshis randomly. For what I read, here's been plenty of discussion about this, mainly at Bitcoin talk (discussions here, here and here - in Spanish also here,
here…
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What are the different types of spam that the Lightning Network is subject to?
What are the different types of spam that the Lightning Network is subject to and what are the possible strategies for dealing with such spam?
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How to actively measure mempool?
For research purposes, I want to send transactions to the Bitcoin network and measure when they are received (yes, I am aware of existing websites which have statistics about these averages, but they can't provide me with more detailed…
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bitcoin dust spamming - could the blockchain be rendered useless?
My concern isn't with individual bitcoin users but governments, what if a government spammed the network with say $1 Billion dollars worth of tiny dust transactions, including fees? The backlog of unconfirmed transactions would seem to effectively…
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Defeating email spam with Bitcoin
There was a paper somewhere proposing a scheme for filtering email spam with the use of Bitcoin micropayments. I can't remember where I saw it and can't find it now. Anybody knows about it?
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How Bitcoin-Core does decide whether high fee during sendrawtransaction?
I am testing commands through Bitcoin testnet and Bitcoin Core.
During the test, I intentionally attempted to create and broadcasts transactions by charging high fees.(1 BTC)
During the final phase, sendrawtransaction blocked the progress with error…
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Is Bitcoin fee attack preventable?
A block on Bitcoin blockchain contains about 4000 transactions.
Since a block is added approximately every 10 minutes, in 3 months, about 51 million transactions can be added (4000 x 6 x 24 x 90 = ~51 mil)
A bad actor such as a government could post…
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Is it possible to transmit a tx over the network that does not go into the blockchain?
Can I somehow create a transaction that is broadcasted over the bitcoin network but will not go into a block?
Might be handy for SatoshiDice like confirmations.
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What I have in mind is transporting information over the bitcoin network without…
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Who is spamming the bitcoin cash mempool and why?
When looking at the last hours of bitcoin cash (BCH/BCC) transactions I saw a massive increase in low(or no)-fee transactions:
Usually the graph looks similar to the BTC case (see below), just without the backlog of unconfirmed transactions.
Is…
Willi Fischer
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How is spamming of the block chain discouraged by the Bitcoin protocol?
I have heard people imply that there are parties that want to spam the block chain for some reason, for example to get more support for higher blocks.
How is spamming the block chain discouraged by the Bitcoin protocol?
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Question about spam attacks
From my understanding, an unconfirmed transaction can be accepted into the mempool provided that it has a fee that is generally at least 5460 satoshi, which is set as default in the current version of Bitcoin Core (assuming input=148B, output=34B,…
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