If *someone* is stressing BTC... Do you support stressing *someone*?

[troleybüs]

I don't know why people care about coinwallet.eu at all. They can't succeed anything without community support. That's very bad marketing strategy for them.

[Blockhunter]

Not supporting them. Several tests like this should be done on a testnet first.

This is the best idea in the whole wide world. But I did not know of these folks until this debacle 😳

[BayAreaCoins]

I should however note that CoinWallet.eu is relatively immune to this form of 'attack' as our fees are dynamic and are set at 3x the standard limit. As always, CoinWallet clients will be unaffected by the test. More details will be posted publicly when the test is imminent.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/coinwallet-plans-bitcoin-dust-attack-september-create-30-day-transaction-backlog-1515981

Looks like they need CoinWallet XP.

[poeEDgar]

I should however note that CoinWallet.eu is relatively immune to this form of 'attack' as our fees are dynamic and are set at 3x the standard limit. As always, CoinWallet clients will be unaffected by the test. More details will be posted publicly when the test is imminent.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/coinwallet-plans-bitcoin-dust-attack-september-create-30-day-transaction-backlog-1515981

Looks like they need CoinWallet XP.

Hours later, still going strong: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/coinwallet.eu

Immune to this sort of attack, they say?

[Blockhunter]

I should however note that CoinWallet.eu is relatively immune to this form of 'attack' as our fees are dynamic and are set at 3x the standard limit. As always, CoinWallet clients will be unaffected by the test. More details will be posted publicly when the test is imminent.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/coinwallet-plans-bitcoin-dust-attack-september-create-30-day-transaction-backlog-1515981

Looks like they need CoinWallet XP.

Hours later, still going strong: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/coinwallet.eu

Immune to this sort of attack, they say?

hehehe

This is what makes bitcoin great.

[BayAreaCoins]

They appear to be back up.

Down again.

[illyiller]

I was in the "don't DDOS them" camp until I realized they were pushing a 3rd-party web wallet agenda. That's scummy. Wouldn't even surprise me if these stress tests were an expensive attempt at advertisement, with the end game of eventually pulling an epic exit scam.

[P-Funk]

I've been periodically checking https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/ This shit is nothing. Are nodes doing a much better job of filtering or is this attack wimpy? Right now tradeblock is saying the mempool is only 2.47MB.  I remember the mempool was at 50MB+ in earlier attacks.

[ranochigo]

What CoinWallet.eu is doing harms the reputation of Bitcoin. With them stressing Bitcoin, people who are unaware of this and pays a slightly lower fee would result in their transaction getting stuck on the blockchain. Especially if the transaction requires one confirmation to be processed. People who see this stress test would think that Bitcoin isn't as fast as other payment methods when it comes to daily goods and they would be less inclined to use it.

[favdesu]

well, bitcoin can handle ddos much better than coinwallet it seems. sweet irony

[asad777]

For me yes why not ?

[b457]

Aaaaaaand they are down again.
"It's not just you! http://coinwallet.eu looks down from here. "

[Denker]

They appear to be back up.

Nope not for me. Still down. And to be honest I wouldn't care if they stay down. Spamming the network the way they do and at the same time making propaganda for their own wallet is beneath contempt. F*** them I say!

[poeEDgar]

downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it's up again, but I've cleared brower history/cache repeatedly and can't resolve the page. It did seem to come back up after 6-8 hours yesterday. Seems someone is definitely messing with them.

[asad777]

CoinWallet.eu is totally down right know

[BayAreaCoins]

Down on this end as well again.

[uxgpf]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3jjnnz/attacking_bitcoin_in_the_uk_offences_under_the/cupuun0

From Mike Hearn's reply to coinwallet.eu:

We know that the address on your website is fake but consider this: you have a large footprint. You have a website, have been talking to the media, have been posting to reddit and are running Bitcoin nodes on the network. If you have made just one mistake that means people can find you, and if you live in a part of the world with a non-joke legal system, then you are very possibly going to end up in prison. You can't argue your way out of it as you seem to think you can.

[OROBTC]

...

OK, I did my good deed of the day and dropped by https://coinwallet.eu/.

Got an error message (blue coloring mine):

This webpage has a redirect loop

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS


Ha ha ha! 

Maybe I'll drop by again...

[figmentofmyass]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3jjnnz/attacking_bitcoin_in_the_uk_offences_under_the/cupuun0

From Mike Hearn's reply to coinwallet.eu:

We know that the address on your website is fake but consider this: you have a large footprint. You have a website, have been talking to the media, have been posting to reddit and are running Bitcoin nodes on the network. If you have made just one mistake that means people can find you, and if you live in a part of the world with a non-joke legal system, then you are very possibly going to end up in prison. You can't argue your way out of it as you seem to think you can.

lol, classic Mike Hearn. threaten people with prison.

[BayAreaCoins]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3jjnnz/attacking_bitcoin_in_the_uk_offences_under_the/cupuun0

From Mike Hearn's reply to coinwallet.eu:

We know that the address on your website is fake<snip

Coinwallet.eu's address is as real as the one Coinbase lists as their address.

I don't know where Mike is going with that one...