by /u/socat2me · 0 votes · 2024-04-16 04:31:00
First black marble. Now this. An attacker is using large transactions that are a few hundred kilobytes each with ~150inputs and 2 outputs each and have a $1 fee making it to where there's only around 3-4 transactions in a block.
There's a 10-12 hour backlog unless you increase your fee enough. Multiple different kinds of attacks within the same week is pretty concerning especially since they are all extremely easy to perform.
The default fees really need to be increased.
User: /u/DigitalShaman
I don't think they want to "win" it - they want to "control" it - they want certain players to pull in all the cash becuase they're connected to certain players, they need off the books cash to install their third world dictators in south america and the middle east to control entire countries, and the way they fund a lot of this is via the drug money. But they need to control the system a bit to make sure the majority of it funnels through THEIR players, and that somebody they don't like doesn't inadvetently become powerful enough to become a genuine threat to them. That's why they go so hard after certain people and work hand in hand with others, think Noriega and the nicaraguan contra scandal, etc. At one point, I believe I read that they intentionally prolonged the "war in vietnam" with an entire fake village massacre that never happened just to get a couple more plane loads of cocaine out. As shocking as it may be, our government does lots of off the book stuff and we (The "public") don't find out until 50+ years later when it's declassified and nobody really cares anymore becuase entire generations have gone by and people are more wrapped up in the current scandals. At least that's my opinion.