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2023-06-07 13:45:01

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📅 Original date posted:2013-04-09
📝 Original message:On 4/9/2013 4:09 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> hack by changing the protocol. Nodes can serve up blocks encrypted under a
>> random key. You only get the key when you finish the download. A blacklist
> NAK
>
> Makes bringing up a new node dependent on other nodes having consistent
> uptimes, particularly if you are on a low-bandwidth connection.
>
>> can apply to Bloom filtering such that transactions which are known to be
>> "abusive" require you to fully download the block rather than select the
>> transactions with a filter. This means that people can still access the
> NAK
>
> No blacklists
>
It depends on how clever the spammers get encoding stuff. If law
enforcement forensic tools can pull a jpeg header + child porn out of
the blockchain, then there's a problem that needs mitigation.

2023-06-07 13:37:22

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📅 Original date posted:2013-03-12
📝 Original message:On 3/12/2013 5:18 AM, Jorge Timón wrote:
> A related question...some people mentioned yesterday on #bitcoin-dev
> that 0.5 appeared to be compatible with 0.8.
> Was that only for the "fatal block" and would have forked 0.8 later
> too or is it something else?
> I'm having a hard time understanding this 0.5 thing, if someone can
> bring some light to it I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
It was reported that not all 0.7 died from the BDB error either. This
will likely take a post-mortem to determine exactly what build
environments and versions are incompatible, by feeding each the bloated
block (hopefully there are lots of snapshots of the bad chain being the
best height for testing; I forgot to get one).