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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:17:24 -0400
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:10:47AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> However, most nodes are not running in such a loop today. Probably
> almost no nodes are.
>=20
> I suppose you could consider mass node death to be more benign than a
> hard fork, but both are pretty damn serious and warrant immediate
> action. Otherwise we're going to see the number of nodes drop sharply
> over the coming days as unattended nodes die and then don't get
> restarted.

I'm sure if "mass node death" becomes an issue miners will have plenty
of incentive to temporarily, or permanently, setup some high-memory and
high-bandwidth nodes to accept transactions. The DNS seeds sort by
reliability so it won't be long before nodes are connecting to them.

My home machine has 16GB of ram, bigger than the whole blockchain.

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