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I'm interested in how all these other chains deal with people writing tons of junk transactions per second to bloat up the chain.
by uncoder0 5y ago
I'm interested in how all these other chains deal with people writing tons of junk transactions per second to bloat up the chain.
- cgb223 5y agoHaving a transaction fee de-incentivizes most people who want to do this Every junk transaction costs them money
- WanderPanda 5y agoFrom what I’ve seen they don’t
- ezekg 5y agoNANO actually just went through a pretty big spam attack and it crippled the network for awhile, but they supposedly came up with a pretty novel solution in the latest version. I haven't dug into it yet though. But NANO is fee-less, so it is (was?) more prone to these types of attacks. Having a fee increases the cost of a spam attack.
- smabie 5y agoI don't know about other chains, but for ethereum you get money for destroying/freeing up block space. This is how the Chi gas tokens work: they write 0s to the chain when gas is cheap and destroy the blocks when gas is expensive.