There are 26k transactions in queue ... over 70MB mempool and the 3 largest pools are ignoring them entirely.
I hope all these get orphaned.
FUCK YOU CHINESE POOLS, fucking go rot in hell, thanks for ruining BTC along w/ ur spammy attacks.
Those blocks were mined within seconds of each other. It is common that close consecutive blocks are tiny blocks with little or no transactions. The network functions like that for many years, it is not because of malicious pool, Chinese or not. I have seen Slush and BTCGuild done that before a lot time ago when they were the stronger pools.
Solex has a good explaination on the first page:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1116582.msg11838710#msg11838710You folks all realize that Coblee fixed this issue in Litecoin years ago, and advised Bitcoin devs that this was a problem. They didn't listen.
Hate to say this, but Litecoin is now the standby alternative if btc doesn't get it's act together.
People has been repeating a million times now why the devs haven't included yet the LTC fix, even cobble made a reddit post about it, yet I haven't seen any dev addressing this in here. Did gmaxwell say anything about this?
This should be a quick fix that doesn't need any fork or anything fancy, just a software update.
The proposed "fix" raises fees for small outputs. The current spam transactions have large non-dust outputs. The "fix" wouldn't work for this attack.