@rogerkver Government is a confusing beast because it operates simultaneously as both a protection service and as a protection racket.
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets You’d have to ask them, if you can find them. Some attackers do make their reasons known: http://t.co/n1tCN387EH
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets No way to know for sure, but usually these attackers are trying to expose flaws in the Bitcoin protocol.
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets Current spam attack has placed over a gigabyte of unconfirmed transactions in the mempool. Some nodes run out of RAM