Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tilde.zone/@lunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lunch</span></a></span> ROFLMAO!<br><em>press X for doubt</em></p><p>We've seen <em>"transaction stuffing attacks"</em> trying to flood the <br><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monero</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> with a shitload of transactions not that long ago...</p><ul><li>It didn't result in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transaction</span></a> fees skyrocketing like it did with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ethereum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethereum</span></a> but instead only those looking into the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BlockchainExplorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlockchainExplorer</span></a> and those <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> found it odd that every block hat double if not triple digit transactions in them...</li></ul><p>Transactions were still as fast as usual and still as cheap as they've been before and afterwards, so yeah, unless you have a PoC / Exploit / Whitepaper ready to point out specific weaknesses like the long ago fixed <code>tx_extra</code> field I'd say this is more alarmist than reasonable.</p><ul><li>I myself am not affected: I neither own nor trade <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monero</span></a> but with literally billions of darknet and black market transactions in it, you'd shure as hell make a fortune selling your latest PoC to <em>both sides</em> multiple times over... ^ </li></ul><p>Alas that's why you waste my time instead of mailing Zerodium or other exploit brokers to negotiate your payment for an actual weakness...</p>