Monero’s dynamic block size did not fail! There was a slight error in the wallet implementations. The wallets were always choosing the lowest possible fee, even as the mempool filled up. After the fix they now start to choose a slightly higher TX fee when the mempool gets filled, which let’s the blocks expand much quicker.
Still, it highlighted Monero’s inability to scale. The TX pool was large and cause issues with the whole network. Nodes were having problems syncing, and the attack was not even that big.
Monero’s dynamic block size did not fail! There was a slight error in the wallet implementations. The wallets were always choosing the lowest possible fee, even as the mempool filled up. After the fix they now start to choose a slightly higher TX fee when the mempool gets filled, which let’s the blocks expand much quicker.
Still, it highlighted Monero’s inability to scale. The TX pool was large and cause issues with the whole network. Nodes were having problems syncing, and the attack was not even that big.