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Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics
by
Peter Todd
on
05/09/2012, 23:18:24 UTC
Quote from: piuk on September 05, 2012, 10:31:48 PM
Quote from: Matt Corallo on September 05, 2012, 05:06:16 PM
Oh god, thats awful...that is quite possibly the worst way to implement messages in terms of network load...
I'm not sure it's *the* worst way. Look at the Mitt Romney extorters address which someone sent 30 transactions just to try embed an imgur link (
http://blockchain.info/address/1HeF89wMjC48bWNgWvVo7Wu3RaLW8XVsE8
).
No actually, I would argue that your way is still worse. Those transactions embed the message into the
amount
, which means that when the recipient of those funds eventually spends the free money the transactions can be pruned.