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Back in the merged mining days of bitcoin/namecoin, there was a lot of worthless namecoin around and you didn't exactly know what to do with it: So I had the b

Back in the merged mining days of bitcoin/namecoin, there was a lot of worthless namecoin around and you didn't exactly know what to do with it: So I had the bright idea to go around collecting publicly listed namecoin addresses - bitcointalk signatures, github donation addresses, developers, you name it I think I gathered about 100 addresses I wrote a bash script and put looped namedcoind to read my text file and send the minimum tx amount to a random address every second.... So that was running in a (detached) screen and I got busy and forgot about... for a few days... Some folks didn't think that was very funny and called it an "attack"

bhelkey 4y ago
So you sent less than a penny to github donation addresses ~35 times an hour every hour for days on end? And you were surprised when folks didn't enjoy this spam?
- jcpham2 4y ago
  Some might say that the original hacker ethos is exploring exploiting and even attempting to break things. I’m retrospect yes it was juvenile and regrettable but hey welcome to the game, friends. People weren’t brigading you with pitchforks back then because proof of work wasn’t destroying the planet a decade ago. Simpler times.