frank1... gotta love the finger pointing that it was Core creating spam.
In all seriousness though, obviously we don't know who was responsible for creating the spam and probably never will.
For all we do know though it might just have been Coinbase fucking up the network with their (back then) lack of transaction batching.
That being said I appreciate you posting your view on that matter.
1. presuming is was random. is a laugh. check the core BIP dates (july 2015 spam attack .... bip for CSV)
2. not coinbase non-batching.. the transactions were from a mixer well known linked to a certain dev
3. even if coinbase spammed. check the puppet master dcg.co/portfolio/#c.. also note a dev group in #b
but thats digressing off the point. since segwit there has been a red curve of transactions
oh and before you presume the red curve 2018 drop was due to lets say coinbase batching.. that too can be proved just a presumption.
because if that was the case. you would on one of the charts windfury provided for the topic (inputs and outputs)
in a situation of batching. would see inputs and outputs rise .. not fall.
.. in 2018 coinbase did start batching.. but still the transaction count chart.. AND the inputoutput chart BOTH DROPPED
which means coinbase had little influence.
(the 'spam' if you analyse the blockchain and not reddit PR. shows it was MIXER caused..people actually put in a lil amount of coin into the main mixers and later followed the taint. so blockchain analysis revealed the actual truth.. not reddit/twitter PR)
oh.. by the way. dont now presume "Wu CHINA" spammed.. as the blockchain data (again not reddit PR) can show "Wu clan" was not filling blocks to spam that things are over capacity.. (hint: empty blocks = less spam)
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finally to hopefully put to rest the meander about "conservatism" aka "doing nothing"
the drama which i call the "floppydisk space(1mb) or else servers" is so laughable.
Kodak tried that in 1999 when they too thought going digital with microsd cards wont work due to limits of floppy disks...
the reply the world gave kodak was .. what i shall call now a 256GB space is a fingernail size bit of plastic
we are not in the floppy, dialup era.. we are in in fibre/5G/microsd era..
if anyone wants to say 1mb is too much for 10minutes.. better tell liverstreamers, skyp/facetimers, gamers that.. oh wait. that would be a laugh