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2023-06-07 02:22:38
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Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2011-09-06 šŸ—’ļø Summary of this message: Bitcoin block ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2011-09-06
šŸ—’ļø Summary of this message: Bitcoin block chain is being filled with transactions with lots of outputs, leading to excessive disk space usage. A patch has been suggested to fix the issue.
šŸ“ Original message:Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the
main bitcoin block chain:
http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f

Their next step will be creating transactions with thousands of inputs
from those transactions. The result will be lots of excessive disk
space usage.

The fix is this patch:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491

Suggestions on the best way to let merchants, miners, and pools know
about the potential problem?
I hate to take time away from the 0.4 release to re-spin 0.3.24 with
the patch, but we may have to.

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