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Not forgetting, simply deferring discussion on that.  We=E2=80=99ve a =
much smaller limit to deal with right now.  But even that limit would =
have to go to remove this attack.

From: Btc Drak=20
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:07 PM
To: Raystonn .=20
Cc: Peter Todd ; Bitcoin Dev ; Patrick Mccorry (PGR)=20
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential =
solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the =
blocksize limit

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . <raystonn@hotmail.com> =
wrote:

  No, with no blocksize limit, a spammer would would flood the network =
with
  transactions until they ran out of money.

I think you are forgetting even if you remove the blocksize limit, there =
is still a hard message size limit imposed by the p2p protocol. Block =
would de-facto be limited to this size.
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