look at this. 80K unconf tx's and 6.76TPS and yet gmax et al says there's no problem. all that wasted computational work done by full nodes for blocks that will never clear those unconf tx's. i told you long ago these guys will never even be able to recognize a problem even when it's staring them in the face and even after it's beat them over the head:
So the fix is to happily write these 80k spam transactions into the permanent ledger that we (full nodes) have to keep a copy of forever?
Yes, initially.
After some volatility and after the spammers figure out they can't jack the mempool anymore the attacks should stop.
someone did a calculation:
For example, with 100mb blocks, forcing average transaction fees up to only $0.06 over the course of a year would genuinely cost an attacker over $1billion.