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On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . <raystonn@hotmail.com> wrote:

> No, with no blocksize limit, a spammer would would flood the network with
> transactions until they ran out of money.


I think you are forgetting even if you remove the blocksize limit, there is
still a hard message size limit imposed by the p2p protocol. Block would
de-facto be limited to this size.

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