Quote from: AlexGR on March 06, 2016, 09:18:54 PM

Quote from: Andre# on March 06, 2016, 09:09:39 PM

Looks pretty maxed out to me (with thousands tx waiting in tradeblock's mempool). I guess I must be making it up, then.

Anyone can activate a script and broadcast millions of transactions. When the cost to transact is near zero, the cost to spam the system tends to near zero as well. This means that the transaction backlog is to be expected under these circumstances and it won't change whether the blocksize is 1mb or 1gb - as long as people can spam it for free or near-zero cost.

Why do those dumb miners include all those spam transactions, don't they know about rational self interest?
Can't we have them arrested for bloating our blockchain? Isn't that illegal?

EDIT, GREAT IDEA: Let's script some nodes that will instantly start DoSing any node relaying transactions with < 8c fee. Anyone here good with computers?