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blog-dshr-org-4675		DSHR's Blog: Mempool Flooding			.html	text/html	2503	378	79	I discussed Joe Kelly's suggestion for how governments might make it impossible to transact Bitcoin by mounting a 51% attack using seized mining rigs. When a mining pool starts trying to mine a block, they choose some of the transactions from their mempool to include in it. Once a transaction is included in a mined block, it is vulnerable to a 51% attack. Unless it were combined with a 51% attack, an effective flooding attack needs to incentivize mining pools who are not part of the attack to prefer the attackers' transactions to those of victims. The result would be to bid up the Bitcoin fee necessary for victim transactions to get included in blocks. Further, the mining pools need transactions to convert their rewards and fees to fiat to pay for power, etc. The mining pools need to identify and censor (i.e. drop) the attackers' transactions.	./cache/blog-dshr-org-4675.html	./txt/blog-dshr-org-4675.txt