Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R0xVi-0002dQ-KL for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:24:26 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.216.182 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.182; envelope-from=shadders.del@gmail.com; helo=mail-qy0-f182.google.com; Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1R0xVh-0001Em-Ql for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:24:26 +0000 Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so3868678qyk.13 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.70.239 with SMTP id p15mr1238923vdu.67.1315322660366; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.50] (155.88-67-202.dynamic.dsl.syd.iprimus.net.au [202.67.88.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q5sm300317vdu.23.2011.09.06.08.24.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E663B1B.7000503@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:24:11 +1000 From: Steve User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Thunderbird/3.1.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Andresen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (shadders.del[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1R0xVh-0001Em-Ql Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: shadders.del@gmail.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:24:26 -0000 Is this the ArtForz solidcoin 'attack'? On 07/09/11 01:21, Gavin Andresen wrote: > Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the > main bitcoin block chain: > http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f > > Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs > from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk > space usage. > > The fix is this patch: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491 > > Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know > about the potential problem? > I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with > the patch, but we may have to. >