Quote from: TPTB_need_war on June 30, 2015, 11:40:50 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 30, 2015, 05:00:22 PM

absolutely. look here. guys reporting their bitcoind shut down from memory overload. that sucks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bmb5r/stress_test_in_full_effect/csniofb

A design which forces every consensus making node to approve every transaction is stoopid. Any half brained engineer could realize this if they spent some time thinking about the issues.

It is, only if and when another design that accomplishes decentralized consensus without that requirement is published and peer reviewed.