Stressing Out: Bitcoin “Stress Testing”

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Khaled Baqer, Danny Yuxing Huang, Damon McCoy, and Nicholas Weaver

In this paper, we present an empirical study of a recent spam campaign (a “stress test”) that resulted in a DoS attack on Bitcoin. The goal of our investigation being to understand the methods spammers used and impact on Bitcoin users.