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RE: New Personal Policy: Flagging all zero-value-add vote/follow begging comments.

in #steemit7 years ago

hey is it true that using bots someone could denial of service attack the steem blockchain and add so much data that the whole thing is fucked?

no. that is not possible.

witnesses would have to coorindate and manualy remove the culprit right?

no. that is not possible either.

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yeah I guess i thought about itmore, and i realized, 35 MG is just 35 MB, servers can handle plenty of terabytes and websites like youtube have plenty of data, and they back it up too, and our system is decentralized, and yeah i guess its silly to think a decentralized system could suffer from same sort of denial of service attack that systems like cloudflare exist to prevent, by having multiple backups, and steem has lotsof witness servers, and we would only need a few to serve everyone acessing steemit right? and steemit.com is hosted in multiple places and we have busy.org and yah i guess steem hasnt ever been offline except for hard fork updates right?

sorry i am just a beginner learning about this stuff and im actually grateful for the work develiopers have done for steem, im not complaianing!