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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Cost of bringing the Bitcoin network to a halt.
by
ShakyhandsBTCer
on 12/06/2014, 23:25:53 UTC
What is the flaw in this if any?

https://pay.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/27tk65/quick_calculation_cost_of_bringing_the_bitcoin/

Suppose a person with old-coins wantto bring transaction processing to crawl by spending his bitcoins in creating max transactions, will that work?

He would not need to use old coins to do this. He would just need to use a lot of coins (if inputs or outputs are too small then the TX would not be relayed by nodes nor confirmed by miners). He would have very little incentive to do this as it would lower the value of the valuable coins that he already has.