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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: 60,000 Unconfirmed transaction and counting
by
BrewMaster
on 15/04/2017, 15:53:53 UTC
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You would think, but not so.

Bitfury still fill blocks with low fee spam from addy 3QQB6AWxaga6wTs6Xwq8FYppgrGinGu15f before higher fee paying real tx's.
See for example https://blockchain.info/block-index/1477998

Addy https://blockchain.info/address/3QQB6AWxaga6wTs6Xwq8FYppgrGinGu15f has sent 140238tx's, all spam, nearly all relayed by Bitfury.

yes i have seen those before but for every one of these low fee spams there are so much more with higher fees.
and bitfury only finds 11% of the blocks nothing more. so that would be practically ineffective because other miners reject them.

c) the fuller the blocks are naturally, the less extra space there is , so cheaper to spam (this is why bigger blocks will help fight spam)
i find this statement contradictory.
cheaper to spam means easier to make more transactions.

and how much bigger blocks are we talking about!
1.2 MB 1.5 or 2 or 10 MB or 20
are nodes and miners really ready for that size. i don't think so.