Timeline for Does all kind of spam benefit the network?
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:52 | comment | added | Spamalot | Spam has to validate transaction or it does not get propagated. If you just want to gum up nodes with useless transactions that only validate old transactions, then you could do that, but you would need a lot of cpu to sustain an attack that wont eventually get drowned out by genuine transactions. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:34 | comment | added | lex82 | @TobiMZ Which sentences? I ask how spam benefits the network if it only creates more load (bandwidth, bigger tangle, tip selection more complex) but does not validate transactions. I don't understand why it is important at which nodes spam enters the network. Is there some special processing at this point? | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:30 | comment | added | Tobi MZ | then you should read my first two sentences | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:27 | comment | added | lex82 | I mean valid transactions that will (and have to be) properly relayed to all nodes in the network. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:26 | comment | added | aboose♦ | What's unclear is what you mean by spam. The sort of spam happening on the network right now is uncomfirmable invalid transactions, which don't get propagated to other nodes. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:25 | comment | added | lex82 | Please see my comment below Tobi's answer. I do not see how it would overwhelm only a single node. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 6:19 | history | answered | aboose♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |