Quote from: Lloydie on February 12, 2014, 01:26:44 AM

The problem will be fixed because it has been identified as a transaction id problem. There will be a software fix followed by a protocol fix a few months down the track.

As for the DDOS spamming, that is easily fixed as it has been in the past. Keep hoping Mat.

done

Quote from: gmaxwell on February 12, 2014, 01:41:15 AM

We already block most forms which can be blocked, this was a change in bitcoin 0.8 (that was, in fact, causing withdraws delays for mtgox because they produced transactions with invalid encoding).

The recent flood of transactions use a pushdata change. A patch to block it was written in September 2013, but didn't make it into the codebase until today. If your node is running git bitcoin, just update and you'll have it.