Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: How easy BTC could be susceptible to computer security threats?
by
NotATether
on 09/04/2024, 07:42:48 UTC
Could recent 'ordinals' congestion be considered as an attack to blockchain? If so, how easy is it to upload a virus into blockchain itself?

Already done a couple of years ago without the use of Ordinals as they did not even exist at the time.

At the end of the day, transactions are just bytes, and it is possible to stuff a bunch of data inside the transaction which is never evaluated. Most of the time this will make the output unspendable (pre-ordinals), but storing data on-chain is becoming expensive, so it will probably be restricted to storing malicious payloads which can be downloaded and ran to hijack a system, rather than attack the protocol itself.