* Put pressure on SatoshiDICE to stop the transaction spam. The principals involved in SatoshiDICE are Erik Voorhees,
If he can spam Bitcoin network that means its a vulnerability. Vulnerability that needs to be fixed.
It is pointless to "put pressure" on anybody. On the contrary, its good that somebody shows us what needs to be improved. SatoshiDICE is not our enemy, just an opportunist using an opportunity.
If ever governments decide that they don't like Bitcoin after all, SatoshiDICE will be the least of our problems. A real enemy like that will use any means possible (including spamming the network) to harm BTC.
So perhaps let's grab this opportunity to harden the Bitcoin protocol instead of complaining.
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Pressuring SatoshiDice is a band-aid, not a solution. The Bitcoin system is supposed to work, we're not supposed to ask people to do us a favor and not use it.
To solve the problem of unprunable small outputs, we need some form of output upkeep costs.
To solve the problem of unprunable small outputs, we need some form of output upkeep costs.
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This is so obvious I'm astounded that people keep parroting SD as a "problem." Let's say I shut down SatoshiDice tomorrow, has Bitcoin gotten stronger? More resilient? More impressive? More worthy of global commerce? Here's what would happen:
1) People would see that Bitcoin was so vulnerable that one of its leading advocates had to shut down one of the most profitable Bitcoin sites because the Bitcoin network "couldn't handle it." Perhaps it would make it into the press with the headline, "Bitcoin too weak to support one small gambling site"
2) Bitcoin's usefulness for mini- or micro-transactions, or even "numerous transactions" would be abolished. There'd be significant in-fighting over what constituted "microtransactions" and "transaction spam."
3) Any other person or company could and would create new services (like SD or totally different) that also creates many transactions. The "problem" would then be back, perhaps much bigger. Any "progress" gained by exiling SD would be very swiftly lost.
But at least Luke-Jr, misterbigg, and their cohort of whining babies would be happy because they "saved Bitcoin"
