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I think the article is confusing two different issues, the malleability attacks and the dust attacks. Amaclin seems to be behind the dust attack, which is a che
by phpnode 11y ago
I think the article is confusing two different issues, the malleability attacks and the dust attacks. Amaclin seems to be behind the dust attack, which is a cheap way to DoS the blockchain by causing blocks to reach the maximum number of SIGOPS with dust transactions, preventing real transactions from going through.
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