Not sure how it devalues Bitcoin. It might, but it's not immediately clear how.
What it does is drive up the costs of running a node. Which is why those running nodes are incentivized to mitigate this attack in any way they can.
That said, it's also valid that having to re-download transactions that were already filtered out is an impact. And these get in thanks to nodes which act against their own self interest.
Sort of like cancer cells.
The only way I suppose I could see a case for Bitcoin's market value being impacted though is that being costlier to use is a deterrent at the margins. But I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's actually buying any less due to the prospect of higher fees in the future.
Perhaps there's an angle I'm not seeing though.
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Spam devalaues Bitcoin.
Spam is waste.
Waste of processing power, waste of hash power, waste of bandwith and waste of storage space.
Shitcoins are not valuable becuase they are different kinds of spam.
Bitcoin is Money and that is where its value is.
> it's also valid that having to re-download transactions that were already filtered out is an impact
It is. Which is why having it user configurable was the sensible way to handle it.
Core is like iBitcoin.