When did the attack turn persistent? What if the attacker read ArticMine's comments in here and improved his approach haha

It became persistent around the 10th of October

uh oh. Well hopefully they don't get too curious about Monero and just stick over in zcash land

One thing about the blockchair chart is that the data points are daily. This link shows each block explorer.zcha.in/blocks

I looks at first glance that this version of the attack does support the median at close to the max blocksize

it sounds very much like they learned from you ArticMine

I guess that's what happens when we discuss an ongoing attack in a public forum

<hyc> it sounds very much like they learned from you ArticMine <--- I have to agree

UkoeHB: Nano was spammed 1.5 years ago. Slowed the network to a crawl. Nano had to implement a new tx prioritization system (basically, txs with low "coin days destroyed" were de-prioritized).