Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YrlbE-0006yl-R8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 11 May 2015 11:10:16 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of national.shitposting.agency designates 75.102.27.230 as permitted sender) client-ip=75.102.27.230; envelope-from=insecurity@national.shitposting.agency; helo=mail.cock.li; Received: from cock.li ([75.102.27.230] helo=mail.cock.li) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1YrlbD-0002ei-1s for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 11 May 2015 11:10:16 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:10:09 +0000 From: insecurity@national.shitposting.agency To: pete@petertodd.org In-Reply-To: <20150511103402.GA21748@savin.petertodd.org> References: <55505441.3010906@certimix.com> <20150511103402.GA21748@savin.petertodd.org> Message-ID: <66648462658adebb5e5be7fcba65e670@national.shitposting.agency> X-Sender: insecurity@national.shitposting.agency User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) 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 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record X-Headers-End: 1YrlbD-0002ei-1s Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reducing the block rate instead of increasing the maximum block size X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:10:16 -0000 On 2015-05-11 10:34, Peter Todd wrote: > How do you see that blacklisting actually being done? Same way ghash.io was banned from the network when used Finney attacks against BetCoin Dice. As Andreas Antonopoulos says, if any of the miners do anything bad, we just ban them from mining. Any sort of attack like this only lasts 10 minutes as a result. Stop worrying so much. https://youtu.be/ncPyMUfNyVM?t=20s