WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

WTF Happened In Feb 2023?


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  • Impact of Spam
  • Characteristics of spam
  • Common narratives
    • Mempool policy is censorship
    • A valid transaction is a valid transaction
    • The fees were going to be high anyways
    • Satoshi inscribed on-chain so I should be able to do it too
    • Bitcoin can thrive even if miners are high-time preference greedy actors
    • There's nothing you can do about it
    • Making transactions more efficient on L1 will solve spam
    • High fees will solve spam
    • Everything is good for Bitcoin
  • What you can do about it
    • As a noderunner
    • As a developer
    • As a miner
    • As a pleb
  • Bitcoin core devs reaction
    • PR 29187: trying to fix datacarriersize
    • Fixing a bug through documentation change
  • History of spam on Bitcoin
    • Free relays > Whitelists > Free relays
    • The rise of Out Of Band transactions
    • Noteworthy cases of massive broadcasts of non-payment TXs

    WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

    WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

    WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

    WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

    • Impact of Spam
    • Characteristics of spam
    • Common narratives
      • Mempool policy is censorship
      • A valid transaction is a valid transaction
      • The fees were going to be high anyways
      • Satoshi inscribed on-chain so I should be able to do it too
      • Bitcoin can thrive even if miners are high-time preference greedy actors
      • There's nothing you can do about it
      • Making transactions more efficient on L1 will solve spam
      • High fees will solve spam
      • Everything is good for Bitcoin
    • What you can do about it
      • As a noderunner
      • As a developer
      • As a miner
      • As a pleb
    • Bitcoin core devs reaction
      • PR 29187: trying to fix datacarriersize
      • Fixing a bug through documentation change
    • History of spam on Bitcoin
      • Free relays > Whitelists > Free relays
      • The rise of Out Of Band transactions
      • Noteworthy cases of massive broadcasts of non-payment TXs


      EN

      • EN

      • FR

      • EN

      • FR

      Common narratives around spam

      Mempool policy is censorship

      A valid transaction is a valid transaction

      The fees were going to be high anyways

      Satoshi inscribed on-chain so I should be able to do it too

      Bitcoin can thrive even if miners are high-time preference greedy actors

      There's nothing you can do about it

      Mempool policy is censorship

      WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

      WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

      Website dedicated to mitigating spam on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is money, not a message board.

      • Impact of spam
      • Characteristics of spam
      • Common narratives
        • Mempool policy is censorship
        • A valid transaction is a valid transaction
        • The fees were going to be high anyways
        • Satoshi inscribed on-chain so I should be able to do it too
        • Bitcoin can thrive even if miners are high-time preference greedy actors
        • There's nothing you can do about it
        • The 100 sats TX challenge
        • Making transactions more efficient on L1 will solve spam
        • High fees will solve spam
        • Everything is good for Bitcoin
      • What you can do about it
        • As a noderunner
        • As a miner
        • As a developer
        • As a pleb
      • Bitcoin core devs reaction
        • PR 29187: trying to fix datacarriersize
        • Fixing a bug through documentation change
      • History of spam on Bitcoin
        • Free relays > Whitelists > Free relays
        • The rise of Out Of Band transactions
        • Noteworthy cases of massive broadcasts of non-payment TX

      Created by the plebs, for the plebs.

      No rights reserved. Copy anything/everything.

      WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

      WTF Happened In Feb 2023?

      Website dedicated to mitigating spam on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is money, not a message board.

      • Impact of spam
      • Characteristics of spam
      • Common narratives
        • Mempool policy is censorship
        • A valid transaction is a valid transaction
        • The fees were going to be high anyways
        • Satoshi inscribed on-chain so I should be able to do it too
        • Bitcoin can thrive even if miners are high-time preference greedy actors
        • There's nothing you can do about it
        • The 100 sats TX challenge
        • Making transactions more efficient on L1 will solve spam
        • High fees will solve spam
        • Everything is good for Bitcoin
      • What you can do about it
        • As a noderunner
        • As a miner
        • As a developer
        • As a pleb
      • Bitcoin core devs reaction
        • PR 29187: trying to fix datacarriersize
        • Fixing a bug through documentation change
      • History of spam on Bitcoin
        • Free relays > Whitelists > Free relays
        • The rise of Out Of Band transactions
        • Noteworthy cases of massive broadcasts of non-payment TX

      Created by the plebs, for the plebs.

      No rights reserved. Copy anything/everything.