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Re:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] by garmaine on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:00AM (#15884950)
No, I have to send a simple forged "alert" packet to cause you to download 1-4MB of block data plus additional dependent spend data of similar size from your peers, and lock up your CPU for an intensive amount of time doing signature verification and hash tree calculations only to find out the alert was incorrect. Meanwhile another spoofed peer sends another alert packet....
Re:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] by unlimitless on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:58PM (#15888889)
and then my wallet bans your peer and moves on. Not an issue