rich1.0Tom Harding [ARCHIVE] (npub1ms…pmwjy)https://nostr.ae/npub1msef5qkfwz4t7qacwxz775wgdtlytph78g2g2z903x90874u263sypmwjynjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-08-24 📝 Original message:On 8/21/2015 3:06 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:55:58PM +0000, Matt Corallo wrote: >> Anyone have the best reference for the DoS issues? > Well actually, we can reference the DoS attacks that Bitcoin XT nodes > are undergoing right now - part of the attack is repeated Bloom filter > requests to soak up disk IO bandwidth. So, to summarize, someone is attacking Mike Hearn's bitcoin fork. Therefore, now is the perfect time to write a BIP and author changes that begin the process of dropping support for the most broadly successful class of wallets, which Mike Hearn's SPV client library enables.