Blockchain Info - spam

[RawDog]

People can associate a 'message' with a bitcoin address.  When that address is displayed on Blockchain.info - everyone sees the message.  Blockchain.info can easily make and maintain a 'spam' list for abusers.  Once an address is caught spamming, they can be listed and a module can prevent their spam from being further displayed.  

Without this feature, more will continue to shove microtransactions onto popular address so everyone can see their stupid message.  For example, look at this piece of garbage: http://blockchain.info/tx/a166207c072c2d4b257e9f5c33da3e61e06cd0a6091b6a2955a0ebadd2ed0c9e

Blockchain.info should help stop this kind of bullshit right now.  Agree or Disagree?


This amounts to some serious blockchain abuse and these assholes behind it should be stopped. http://blockchain.info/address/1BSmartoUnHz32AAdPKcc7cGGC3DiA4RSh  The bad behavior is enabled by blockchain.info

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[mistercoin]

I totally agree. Dust spamming is bad enough, but when you can add messages with no restriction to this dust. It is unattractive.

[PenAndPaper]

Unless you have an ocd syndrom i don't see the problem with that dust spam. And who cares about those messages anyway...

[needFREElunch]

I strongly disagree. If they were to do this they would essentially be regulating freedom of speech, which is an indirect goal that bitcoin helps achieve. If they were to disable the feature then people would have one less reason to use their block explorer so doing so would be a bad business decision.

If you receive any of this spam then you can simply donate it to the miners

[fred96002001]

some one keeps on sending me 0.00000001 BTC to my wallet is this the same people trying to spam the network?

all i can see is this code with coinbase
f6ecc14f330a35b617e844a376b046487987004baa1b6bf7251fbf238643aa19

it looks like this address
1BSmartoUnHz32AAdPKcc7cGGC3DiA4RSh

it is ever 5 min they are doing this it is getting annoying because they never post. it says hash f6ecc14f330a35b617e844a376b046487987004baa1b6bf7251fbf238643aa19

block size 2.51 KB pool tx pool. fee 0.0003. i dont know if any body can pull that up or not. i dont understand half of this but it keeps on happening. This is my coinbase wallet.  some body has found. 

[williamj2543]

I dont really care. Its a new age of advertising, imagine receiving random payments in your paypal account saying btcsmart.net or something.

[okae]

New age of advertising.
Learn to adapt...

and 0.00000001BTC for free, so whats the problem   ( just joking guys.. )

[RawDog]

New age of advertising.
Learn to adapt...

and 0.00000001BTC for free, so whats the problem   ( just joking guys.. )

It fucks up the blockchain with unpaid pollution. 

Every time you use bitcoin for the rest of your life, your computer going to have to parse that big piece of shit transaction which was dumped there by a scam company who thinks you want to 'double your balance'. 

If blockchain.info stops providing them a forum, they won't dump that garbage into the blockchain and we won't have to consume more resources messing with it. 

Paid ads are different.  Everything has a price. 

[Inotanewbie]

New age of advertising.
Learn to adapt...

and 0.00000001BTC for free, so whats the problem  ( just joking guys.. )

It fucks up the blockchain with unpaid pollution.  

Every time you use bitcoin for the rest of your life, your computer going to have to parse that big piece of shit transaction which was dumped there by a scam company who thinks you want to 'double your balance'.  

If blockchain.info stops providing them a forum, they won't dump that garbage into the blockchain and we won't have to consume more resources messing with it.  

Paid ads are different.  Everything has a price.  

Even if blockchain.info didn't provide this service, this kind of spam would likely continue. Instead of tagging their website they would simply use SEO (it would not require much) to make it so whenever someone would run a google search on their BTC address, their website would pop up.

To get around the issue with your computer having to parse through the TX, the solution would be to send all the BTC you have at an address that received the spam transaction (except for the input of the spam) to a new BTC address, and disregard the old address.  - Problem solved - stop complaining

[lihuajkl]

I don't mind at least I get free bitcoin. If I don't like the spam, I could easily ignore it. Some people can get pissed by this message, blockchain could offer such option to filter spam for them.

[trout]

bc.info removed the spammer's message (and probably blacklisted them).

If Eligius blacklists them too, this spammer's business may fail.
(These 1 satoshi transactions are non-standard and the spammer has to submit
them directly  to a pool that accepts them, which is only Eligius.)

[monnecon]

http://blockchain.info/address/1BSmartoUnHz32AAdPKcc7cGGC3DiA4RSh [/url]  The bad behavior is enabled by blockchain.info

This guy is sending lots of 1 satoshi transactions... And not paying the full miner's fee?

[monnecon]

http://blockchain.info/address/1BSmartoUnHz32AAdPKcc7cGGC3DiA4RSh [/url]  The bad behavior is enabled by blockchain.info

This guy is sending lots of 1 satoshi transactions... And not paying the full miner's fee?

Was that why almost none of the spam transactions were actually confirmed?

[p2pbucks]

Why spam ?
It's decided by miners to deal with Micro tx , not blockchain info.

[leannemckim46]

Also beware of blockchain.info phishing attempts, along with coinbase ones. If you see a random email from blockchain.info be vary wary as the phishing attempt is quite sophisticated.

[50cent_rapper]

No. It's like a history.  Think of people reading this messages 25 years in the future. 

[Hufflepuff]

No. It's like a history.  Think of people reading this messages 25 years in the future. 

Maybe we should all send messages to our future selves.

[e4xit]

Perhaps Blockchain.info could only display messages associated with transactions where the value is over a certain amount, perhaps 0.001 BTC?

But I guess this would not stop spammers/advertisers who grouped transactions to pass this limit...

To further this, blockchain.info could modify their filter to not display messages where the average amount per output was above a certain threshold, but of course the advertisers/spammers would then just use a large output paid to an address they control to boost the average above the required value... Even using a median value to create the threshold could be relatively easily circumvented...

So I guess blockchain.info could try to implement some sort of filter for spam transactions, but I would guess it would be easily circumvented by the advertisers/spammers in no time... How for example should Blockchain.info differentiate between a faucet paying a large number of addresses in a "legitimate" transaction accompanied by a blockchain.info message, from an advert(/spam)?

Unfortunately I do not think that it is in Blockchain.info's interest and indeed within their capability to censor spam/adverts, and this kind of behaviour does not really follow with the ethics of the bitcoin movement anyway; if the action does not impede people's right to privacy, free space, right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of thought etc, then why should Blockchain.info be tasked with blocking or censoring such actions?

If you do not agree with their decision to allow 'mesasges' to be attached to transactions then you are free to use alternative blockchain explorer sites, for example:

blockr.io
biteasy or of course
block explorer

If you do not agree to store the (large?) blockchain on your computer, then use an SPV wallet, this is your prerogative.

[sandykho47]

They should set mininum send (0.00001 BTC)
Because i don't mind spammer send at least 1000 satoshi.

But the main problem is Miner/Pool
They shouldn't process spam tx

[Rampton]

They should set mininum send (0.00001 BTC)
Because i don't mind spammer send at least 1000 satoshi.

But the main problem is Miner/Pool
They shouldn't process spam tx

Can't miners already choose which transactions they complete? I think for the user it would be beneficial if they could set a minimum amount of coins they can recieve to stop this sort of stuff.