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Re: 60,000 Unconfirmed transaction and counting
by
jonald_fyookball
on 15/04/2017, 17:44:47 UTC
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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.
 

Lets say that naturally blocks would be 800kb.  If you only have 200kb free per block, and a transaction is say, 200bytes,
thats 1000 transactions.  Let's say people don't really want to pay more than $1 (they can use paypal or another coin),
that is going to cost $1000.

But if you have lets say 8mb blocks, and 7mb are free , thats 35,000 transactions.  So even if transactions are only 5 cents,
it still costs more ($1750).  

Obviously that's just one possible comparison but the more full blocks get the cheaper it gets to spam, that is the principle here.