thanks for the warning, OP.
I hate these stress tests. it doesn't even have any benefit for anyone.
I wonder how much BTC they will waste trying to create 1 month backlog...
The last I read, I think they stated they were planning on spending 200 BTC.
I have no idea if they will actually waste a full 200 BTC on their little stunt, or if that's just meant to be some sort of scare tactic. I guess we'll see.
That or someone is funding them to push support for bigger blocks and use it as an excuse, I get it some people want bigger blocks and this includes people with money but this is not how we get a consensus.
It just proved that bigger blocks are even more problematic during such kind of stress: The attacker can still spend 200 BTC and create 10x more traffic with 10x lower fee in each transaction, but the 10x larger mempool and 10x larger block will definitely crash most of the nodes
Anyway, nodes will start to filter the spam transaction by raise the relay fee threshold when they see the mempool is too large, this will drop low-fee transactions. Unless the spam transactions would pay a higher fee than many of the legitimate users, it won't make a sense