This topic has been automatically removed when posted on reddit, but if you explore the blockchain page for voat's bitcoin donation wallet, youll see that there have been thousands of .00001btc (which is around one fifth of a cent) donations.
Perhaps someone who knows more about the bitcoin infrastructure can answer this for me, but what good are these 1/5th of a cent transactions, and what harm do they cause to voat directly (if any)?
It's unclear to me if those attack transactions (which are sent in batches from non-repeating wallets, numbering in the hundreds, and all at the same second) will slow voats access to funds directly, or if they simply slow down the network for everyone.
Hmm yes because they all have to be included into a "block" of transactions , but as far as I know these are not being processed, bitcoin is still not functional.
Yeah, BTC does still seem to be down. I tried to send a few bucks to voat via crypto, and I've been waiting on the first conformation for about 36 hrs. That could be an issue with my wallet client though.
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deathcomesilent ago
This topic has been automatically removed when posted on reddit, but if you explore the blockchain page for voat's bitcoin donation wallet, youll see that there have been thousands of .00001btc (which is around one fifth of a cent) donations.
Perhaps someone who knows more about the bitcoin infrastructure can answer this for me, but what good are these 1/5th of a cent transactions, and what harm do they cause to voat directly (if any)?
It's unclear to me if those attack transactions (which are sent in batches from non-repeating wallets, numbering in the hundreds, and all at the same second) will slow voats access to funds directly, or if they simply slow down the network for everyone.
k_digi ago
Hmm yes because they all have to be included into a "block" of transactions , but as far as I know these are not being processed, bitcoin is still not functional.
deathcomesilent ago
Yeah, BTC does still seem to be down. I tried to send a few bucks to voat via crypto, and I've been waiting on the first conformation for about 36 hrs. That could be an issue with my wallet client though.
k_digi ago
Yeah, that's the issue the chain is not processing blocks.