Antonopoulos: There Are No Spam Transactions in Bitcoin
As Bitcoin blocks get closer to full capacity, some members of the community are claiming many of the transactions on the network are nothing more than spam. Defining a spam transaction on the Bitcoin network is somewhat difficult. In fact, Mastering Bitcoinauthor Andreas Antonopoulos believes it’s impossible for such transactions to exist. According to....
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New information has come to light regarding the latest bitcoin spam attack which has exposed the weakness of the bitcoin network. The attack group is now targeting the non-profit, journalistic organization WikiLeaks and the Reddit clone Voat, according to a Motherboard report. Dust or thousands of tiny bitcoin transactions are now hitting WikiLeaks and Voat. However, there is no news regarding why the two are being targeted. Earlier this week, the bitcoin network witnessed an onslaught of thousands of tiny bitcoin transactions aimed at clogging the network and bringing it down. The....
Spamming the network with transactions makes no sense whatsoever, though. The bitcoin network has suffered from multiple attacks over the past few months. These are not attacks against the technology, but rather individuals flooding the network with transactions. It occurs one such spam campaign is underway once again, although it is unclear who is behind this unusually high amount of bitcoin transfers. Some people speculate this is someone who favors Bitcoin Unlimited, albeit that is not confirmed. Spam attacks against the bitcoin network have become a major problem. Due to the nature of....
I am a Gmail user, and I filter all my mailboxes through Gmail. I don't find spam too annoying at the moment because Google catches almost all spam before it reaches my inbox. If anything, I find false positives (legitimate mail sent to spam) more annoying than false negatives (spam in the inbox). But that could change with new generations of blockchain-based spambots. It's a story as old as time, or at least as old as the Internet. Spammers have always found new creative ways to invade our mailboxes, and they have always been early adopters of new Internet technologies. Now, they are....
Just recently, Andreas Antonopoulos talked with the Chinese 8BTC.com community in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) thread. The technical visionary and Bitcoin evangelist had a lot to say concerning hard forks, the Lightning Network, general development and Ethereum. Antonopoulos Answers Questions From the 8BTC Forum Community. Bitcoin is quite popular in....
Today, reports of spam transactions containing one Satoshi and zero fee have been sprouting like daisies. A pair of Bitcoin addresses have been used by would-be hackers to send over 1,000 spam transactions to many more thousands of receiving Bitcoin addresses. The spam transaction encourages users to visit the site BitMessageS.org (intentionally meant to be confused with BitMessage.org) where they are then prompted for their Blockchain.info wallet identifier. Within hours, the Bitcoin community has already taken steps to mitigate the potential damage by this interesting phishing attempt.....