j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMë<div class="post">That's a good point about fee competition, but I'm wondering about near-term implications of this spam flood, too, like<br/><br/><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>What happens to the transactions that don't make it into the current block? (somewhat rhetorical question... the answer is "they keep piling up in memory" AFAICS, but that raises a bigger question -- how to deal with ever-larger TX cache?)</li><li>Will this create a de facto situation where TX fee is required for "normal" bitcoin users?</li><li>Would it make sense to introduce a consensus blacklist, of abusive bitcoin addresses? ie. miners could -- at their discretion -- simply drop TX's with the blacklisted addresses.</li></ul><br/></div> text/html
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