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Somebody's having fun spamming the zcash blockchain and tripling its size to over 100 GB. Rough estimate is that this attack is costing them ~$10 a day in transaction fees.

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Also, the Zcash network is continuing to provide self-sovereign, private, permissionless money. If you want to try it, Jameson, get a mobile light-client wallet (z.cash/wallets) or fire up your full node and send me your address.

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Just finished onboarding yet another first-time Zcash user. This one is some kind of crypto analyst who is heavily into studying Monero. One thing some Zcashers might not realize is that *even* under the current heavy load on the Zcash blockchain, which is …

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Jameson Lopp

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I've been a zcash user since before it even launched. One of the first articles I ever wrote (back in 2014) was about zerocoin.

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Jameson Lopp

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Feb 2, 2016

Running Zcash. Took me 4 min to pour a txn. github.com/Electric-Coin- Get testnet zcash here: zcashfaucet.xyz

7:14 PM · Oct 5, 2022

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Oh I know! And you invited me to give a talk about it before it launched to your Bitcoin users group! I remember that fondly.

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It's sad to see. There was always a risk of DoS given Zcashs deliberate lack of a fee market, but the risk got worse with halo and was kinda ignored. The proofs are much larger and slower to verify, making the attack worse.