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A comment on Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by exit on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:42AM (#14762226)
this is no longer true. blocks are not filling and mempool is clearing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hzw6c/010_satoshi...

it looks like some faction was spamming the network with transactions to create a false sense of urgency about the need to scale.

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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by ftlio on Thursday July 13, 2017 @12:18PM (#14762574)
They most definitely were. It should also be noted that most transactions already occur off-chain at exchanges.
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