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by paavokoya 3558 days ago
Just means the market needs to raise the prices. In bitcoin this is similar to raising transaction fees to add a disincentive for DDOS attacks.

Right now, it seems ethereum is just an almost-free VPS service and people are surprised that actors are taking advantage of it.
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komaromy 3558 days ago
> almost-free VPS service

I guess, if most VPS services cost >$5/minute: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/53xt58/daily_dis...

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makomk 3558 days ago
This isn't quite sufficient, because the prices are set by miners but the transactions have to be processed by every single full node in existence. That's why Bitcoin has a hard upper limit on the complexity of processing any given block.
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nathan-wall 3558 days ago
> That's why Bitcoin has a hard upper limit on the complexity of processing any given block.

Similarly, Ethereum has a gas limit per transaction.

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