Quote from: russokai on September 10, 2015, 10:05:46 PM

Quote from: funkenstein on September 10, 2015, 08:44:38 PM

There's only one way to deal with spam. Ignore it.
Perhaps you have something more interesting to do with your time.

The problem is that the bitcoin network and protocol is not designed to be capable of "ignoring" spam. So you can ignore it all you want but bitcoin is being hurt by it right now.

Maybe he was referring to the point that miners could ignore low fee transactions, and thus the spammers. But anyways it's definetly true that bitcoin is being damaged by this spam.
Even tho the network isn't still designed to defend itself against this now, it could be, but they choose not to.

The fix is simple: (quore from coblee)
"There's code in Bitcoin that says if someone sends a tiny amount of coins to an output, make sure that he pays the mintxfee. This makes sense because you wouldn't want someone creating "dust" spam by sending small amount of coins. BUT the code still only enforces the same mintxfee if you send to many small outputs. The fix is simple: require a mintxfee for each tiny output."

Why are we not doing the same fix on bitcoin ?

Quote from: adamstgBit on September 10, 2015, 10:07:10 PM

what fee must we use for the next month as this spam gets cleared?

Yes, that's their goal - a month of backlog :/