Monero uses a dynamic block size limit and a penalty mechanism instead of a fixed block size limit. This mechanism help, but won't eliminate scaling issues and centralization pressures.
It's also not clear to me how it handle non economic spam attacks. You can only have a block 2x the median of the last 100 blocks but this won't stop a dedicated attacker IMO.
Gusto / Gunnar Stødle
npub1rx…ghtd4
2026-09-05 09:33:03 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2ew5
Author Public Key
npub1rx9wg2d5lhah45xst3580sajcld44m0ll9u5dqhu2t74p6xwufaqwghtd4Published at
2026-09-05 09:33:03 UTCEvent JSON
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