Bitcoin Node Numbers Fall After Spam Transaction ‘Attack’

By October 15, 2015Bitcoin Business

nodes map The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an "attack" that overloaded the bitcoin network.

Last week, an unknown actor sent a deluge of spam that left bitcoin’s nodes – the clients that store and relay transactions – with upwards of 88,000, or 1GB worth , waiting in their collective memory pool.

As Jay Feldis from hardware node maker BitSeed explained to CoinDesk, many low-spec nodes simply could not keep up: "Eventually, the […]

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