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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks
by
Come-from-Beyond
on 13/03/2013, 07:02:55 UTC
Huh? Him exercising his freedom to spam and me exercising my freedom not to include his spam in blocks I create, or even not to pass them along to my neighbors, is extortion?

Or him extorting from me, by spamming, the coding-minutes it'd take to filter him out is extortion?

-MarkM-


It's arguable if it's extortion or not, I just imagined headlines that we could see soon:

A Bitcoin venture is blocked due to very high income!