Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Knots Has Been Nothing More Than A Denial-of-Service Attack On Bitcoin

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack; UK: /dɒs/ doss US: /dɑːs/ daas[1]) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network. -The Wikipedia definition of denial-of-service attack.

This is a very basic concept. Someone makes use of their own resources to disrupt the functioning of other machines on a network.

DoS attacks have been an issue for as long as the internet existed. One of the commonly argued “first Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks” was against the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Panix in the mid-90s. Ther

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