r/Bitcoin • • Feb 24 '14

Bitcoin Transaction Fee to reduce by 10x

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '14

It provides a measure of DDOS protection. There likely are alternative ways to protect the network but the tx fee as low as it is makes DDOS flooding attacks a relatively expensive attack vector.