Monday, 20 April 2020

Questions about Poison Block Attacks, trying to understand the block size debate.

Please correct me where I’m wrong, but as far as my understanding goes...

A poison block attack is a denial of service attack.

This involves a miner adding a bunch of transactions to a single block in hopes that the overwhelming amount of data leaves miners orphaned if their internet connection can’t keep up.

I guess I just don’t understand how this costs money?

These blocks are still recorded and the miner still gets a reward.

If I understand this correctly nuisance blocks are just meant to terrorize mining pools with poor internet.

How is this even a problem?

I feel like I’m missing something lol

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