Quote from: robertgoss on August 07, 2015, 02:04:58 AM

if only we can fix this flooding of transactions with upgrades would be really great

In a sense its fixed. For you running bitcoin core there are two problems from the spam.

#1 most common is that you will have to pay a higher fee and its complicated to know how high a good fee is. Bitcoin core is the only client I know that has a feature for this for a while. Some other clients new implement similar features so it will be common soon(ish). If the spam pays 20k satoshi per kb bitcoin core will adjust your fee accordingly. The send tab also allows you to set this either to fast (and pay a high fee) or to "normal" and pay a lower fee.

#2 less common is that your client runs out of resources as it is no longer able to handle the high amount of transactions. With 0.11. you can now decide how high a fee should be for your client to recognize the transaction as valid. You also can directly influence how many (in size) free transaction your node will relay.

#3 a somewhat often complaint I see is that one runs out of disk space and my server is currently shut down because its indeed full. 0.11. also offers a solution for this with pruning I just did not find the time to fix the issue yet.