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Comment by rekshaw

> Having some level of transaction fees could be important for preventing DOS attacks.

Agreed. Their mitigation approach is somewhat interesting as well though (dynamic PoW [1]). Thanks to the independent nature of the blocks, signing difficulty of the transactions can be raised and lowered dynamically making spam incrementally more expensive for the spammers.

[1] https://medium.com/nanocurrency/dynamic-proof-of-work-priori...

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