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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:26:22 -0400
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:13:10PM +0000, Patrick Mccorry (PGR) wrote:
> With the 0.01mBTC/KB minimum
> relay fee and $230 USD/BTC that works out to about $2.3kUSD/GB of ram
>=20
> IIRC, the fee is 0.1mBTC, so it's $23/MB (assuming 1,000 tx * 2.3 cents) =
and $23k/GB (assuming $23 * 1000, as each $23 is 1mb). Only pointing out as=
 it highlights thats it's even more expense to do.

Mike Hearn reduced the minimum relay fee to 0.01mBTC/KB:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3305

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