21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 21 Nov 2023 \ on: Are transaction fees a vulnerable attack vector? bitcoin
Do you consider paying miners for valid transactions, not taking money from anyone, not double spending or anything like that, to be an attack?
$100 transaction fees are an expected norm of on-chain transactions. That's why there's so much L2 building going on.
No problems with the role miners play.
I'm curious if a well-funded bad actor, say a nation-state, could flood the mempool with high-fee transactions to disrupt "normal" usage.
If I understand correctly. perhaps creating many many transaction of huge file sizes (videos, high res image files, etc.). With the ill-intent of slowing down (or making prohibitively expensive) the network for all other users.
Wondering what would prevent this from happening
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