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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by pyre on Sunday February 28, 2016 @01:28PM (#11191765)
> why do they resort to illegal tactics like DDOSing

Who is the "they" here? Mining operations that are in support of core? Core developers that oppose the change?

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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by pmorici on Sunday February 28, 2016 @02:05PM (#11191883)
It's not clear. A reddit comment by one of the self proclaimed perpetrators says he was paid in order to DDOS nodes with classic in the user agent string. At the same time employees of Blockstream (aka: members of Bitcoin Core's dev team) deny that there are any DDOS attacks taking place[1]. It wouldn't surprise me if Blockstream was somehow behind this but no one is going to publicly admit to such an obviously illegal act.

[0]http://www.blockcy.com/bitcoin-classic-nodes-under-ddos-atta... [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4835fp/blockstreamgmax...

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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by replies_to_all on Sunday February 28, 2016 @02:37PM (#11192030)
Agree, all 3 of my Classic Nodes have been taken offline several times last night. Everyone BUT Bitcoin Core says this is happening and has evidence. The only ones denying the crime seem to be most guilty.
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