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nextparadigms on May 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin

2. BitCoins P2P network is very vulnerable to denial of service attacks; ones that actually cost money!

The guys developing Bitcoin should take a look at the Phantom protocol then, which is supposedly very resilient agaisnt DDoS attacks.

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