Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

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Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

April 19, 2011, 11:39:39 PM

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There is an interesting pattern on bitcoin monitor:

Any idea on what is generating so many consecutive 100 BTC payments?

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April 20, 2011, 12:00:18 AM

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Someone gaming faucet again -.-

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Re: Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

April 20, 2011, 02:13:44 AM

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Nope, penny-flooder.

How often do you get the chance to work on a potentially world-changing project?

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Re: Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

April 20, 2011, 02:37:52 AM

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Such people would be candidates for "shunning".

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3441.msg50075#msg50075

In the same way that the consensus is to reward miners with 50BTC (at the moment) per block, we could form a consensus that bitcoins used in such flooding attacks could be invalidated. Dangerous ground but the concept needs to be explored!

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Re: Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

April 23, 2011, 08:33:36 PM

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Quote from: gavinandresen on April 20, 2011, 02:13:44 AM

Nope, penny-flooder.

Can you define 'penny-flooder'? If this person is attempting to flood the network with tx's, what can be gained by it?

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Re: Interesting pattern on bitcoinmonitor.com

April 24, 2011, 04:44:20 PM

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It would be interesting to try to write a bot that puts 'ascii art'-like transactions out on the network.