Interesting.  It definitely sounds like it did some damage, but not a lot, and software has already evolved to handle it better.  Plus, such an attack continues getting more and more expensive as the transaction fees you need to spend to keep it going get higher.  Obviously I&#x27;m not saying this is a good thing for Bitcoin, but on the whole of things it seems like a blip.  It&#x27;s not like any of the fundamental algorithms underlying Bitcoin were seen to have vulnerabilities.  And if I have to put up with increased transaction fees every so often during an attack in order to have a decentralized currency, well, there&#x27;s worse things in the world.