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OP_RETURN Conflict: Ocean Mining Accuses Core Developers of Colluding to Fill Bitcoin With ‘Spam’
6.5.2025
Bitcoin Mechanic, the pseudonymous global head of sales at Ocean Mining, stressed that Bitcoin Core developers were colluding with Citrea, a Bitcoin Zero Knowledge (ZK) expansion product, to facilitate the inclusion of so-called “spam” in the blockchain. Ocean Hints at Citrea-Bitcoin...
Casa Co-Founder Jameson Lopp Offers Solution for Bitcoin ‘Spam:’ Increasing Adoption
5.5.2025
Lopp, currently embroiled in the debate to lift OP_RETURN restrictions in bitcoin, stated that the simplest way to keep so-called “spam” away from the bitcoin chain was to increase block space demand. This way, so-called “spammers” would have to pay higher costs to use bitcoin’s resources. Jameson...
Spam Fight Heats Up: Bitcoin Knots Node Count Rises 49% in April
4.5.2025
Lately, Bitcoin developers have found themselves entrenched in a fervent dispute over a proposal to eliminate the long-standing 80-byte constraint imposed on the OP_RETURN function. As this technical standoff intensifies, the alternative Bitcoin client known as Bitcoin Knots witnessed a notable...
Facilitating Spam Attacks or Nothing Burger? Drama Ensues Over Changes to This Bitcoin Guardrail Feature
1.5.2025
The bitcoin development community is divided over a proposal to remove certain guardrails designed to deter the use of its blockchain for storing arbitrary data (or ‘spam’). Some developers argue that this change will impact the future of bitcoin, while others assert that it is already...
Bitcoin Debate on Looser Data Limits Brings to Mind the Divisive Ordinals Controversy
30.4.2025
Removing the blockchain's OP_RETURN size controls would allow more data to be embedded in transactions. Critics say this will only be used for spam
Bitcoiner speculates ‘massive’ bot spam briefly took down Bitcoin mailing list
3.4.2025
One of Bitcoin’s key communication tools used to discuss potential protocol changes was knocked out for several hours starting on April 2, with one moderator speculating it may have been a targeted attack assisted by bots. For several hours across April 2 and 3, Bitcoin core developers...
Fortnite's Ice Spice NPC Wouldn't Stop Tossing Ice Grenades So Epic Had To Take Them Away
19.11.2024
Last week, famous rapper Ice Spice was added to Fortnite as part of the free-to-play shooter’s ongoing Chapter 2 Remix mini-season. If you hired her, she could help out during matches by throwing ice grenades at enemies, but she would often spam them, annoying and hindering even the players she...
Gmail chystá past na spam. Po vzoru Applu integruje jednoduchou tvorbu aliasů
15.11.2024
Redaktoři Android Authority si při analýze nové verze Google Play Services všimli v kódu odkazů na zatím neoznámenou funkci Shielded Email. Tyto „stíněné e-maily“ nejsou ničím jiným než aliasy, tedy alternativními adresami, které přesměrují zprávy do hlavní schránky. Službu těsně integrovanou do
Chystá se zpřísnění pokut za spam
14.11.2024
Maximální pokuty za rozesílání spamu by mohly vzrůst ze současných 10 milionů korun až na 20 milionů eur, případně až 4 % z ročního obratu. Počítá s tím návrh zákona o digitální ekonomice, který začaly projednávat sněmovní výbory. Pokud úspěšně projde legislativním procesem, nahradí v budoucnu...
Crypto Traders Apparently Spam Truth Terminal into Pumping Coin Associated with Brian Armstrong’s Dog
23.10.2024
Cardano node upgrade underway following mainnet DDoS attack
26.6.2024
A failed DDoS attack on the Cardano blockchain led developers to initiate a node upgrade to enhance security
Sui Surpasses Solana in Daily Transactions Amidst Spam Token Frenzy
5.5.2024
Sui, a scalability-focused blockchain, has surpassed Solana, a top 10 cryptocurrency network, in activity levels, registering 41 million transactions on April 3. The activity overheating on Sui is caused by ‘spam’, a Sui native token designed to stress test the network’s...
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
9.1.2024
Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represented a sophisticated but controversial plan to block the suddenly popular "inscriptions" known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."
The Protocol: Bitcoin Censorship, or Just 'Spam Filtering?'
6.12.2023
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're highlight blockchain developers named in CoinDesk's Most Influential list just out, including Blockstream's Lisa Neigut, Polygon's Jordi Baylina, Base's Jesse Pollak and Optimism's Karl Floersch
Developer Says Ordinals Are Exploiting a “Vulnerability” to Spam Bitcoin Network, Proposes Bug Fix
6.12.2023
Image Source: Pixabay Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr has proposed a bug fix to potentially alleviate the network congestion caused by new Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Dashjr claimed that these tokens are taking advantage of a vulnerability within...
Terra Luna Classic contemplates deposit hike to curb spam proposals
10.9.2023
This measure is intended to counteract the influx of "spam" and irrelevant proposals submitted for voting within the Terra Luna Classic community
Elon Musk tweets and Twitter bot spam influences altcoin prices: Study
3.8.2023
The study also questioned whether FTX or Alameda had any role in coordinating Twitter bot activity for its own gain
Twitter to impose daily limits on DMs for unverified accounts, citing an effort to ‘reduce spam’
22.7.2023
Twitter has not yet specified what the daily DM limits will be, and the move hasn’t been received well by both verified and unverified users
To Survive the New Era of Robot Spam, Look to Crypto’s History
21.7.2023
Human communication systems are under threat from linguistic robots (AI). But the same spammy problem helped lead to the creation of Bitcoin
Stránky klamou, aby zobrazovaly spam. Edge výzvy o zobrazování notifikací schovává
20.7.2023
Notifikace na webových stránkách se před lety profilovaly jako užitečná funkce, jenže pak najednou byly všudypřítomné a otravné. S nevyžádanými oznámeními se rozhodl vypořádat prohlížeč Microsoft Edge. Před lety se do častých žádostí o notifikace pustily Mozilla a Google.
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