Bitcoin Core devs think it would be easy, and funny, to attack Knots | Protos
It is becoming increasingly difficult to protest Bitcoin Core version 30 (v30). Determined to roll out a major change to the Bitcoin network’s largest mempool and seal their victory over dissidents in this year’s OP_RETURN war, a pro-v30 mining pool consultant was laughing this weekend about attacking dissident nodes for sport. Although Bitcoin developer and creator of Marathon’s Slipstream mining queue did not actually sustain that attack, many pro-v30 developers were mocking at how funny it would have been. In the hypothetical attack tickled pro-v30 influencers, he described identifying Knots nodes using their Comcast residential internet Autonomous System Numbers. He would have then spun up over 90 nodes, hypothetically speaking, and repeatedly have requested an Initial Block Download from those Knots nodes. In other words, he described a Denial of Service (DoS) attack against Knots nodes. Bitcoin dev wants to ban 3,000 Knots nodes amid OP_RETURN clash Rea...