Many-output transactions in the main chain
2 messages, 6 Sep 2011. Started by Gavin Andresen.
Gavin Andresen, Steve Shadders
Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the main bitcoin block chain: http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f
Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk space usage.
The fix is this patch: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491
Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know about the potential problem? I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with the patch, but we may have to.
Is this the ArtForz solidcoin 'attack'?
On 07/09/11 01:21, Gavin Andresen wrote:
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> Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the > main bitcoin block chain: > http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f > > Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs > from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk > space usage. > > The fix is this patch: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491 > > Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know > about the potential problem? > I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with > the patch, but we may have to. >