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I think it's fair that "free TXs will likely be lost". That's really just the market at work - If Satoshidice would pay proper fees, I bet those miners would be
by skore 14y ago
I think it's fair that "free TXs will likely be lost". That's really just the market at work - If Satoshidice would pay proper fees, I bet those miners would be very happy to lift their block. In a sense making it "worth their effort".
Any P2P network dies when leeching of resources completely outweighs sharing of resources. I think Bitcoin with its transaction fees has a very clever mechanism to prevent that from happening.
- asdfaoeu 14y agoSatoshi dice transactions pay relatively high fees and is probably the only reason transactions have any fees at all. Miners already limit the number of free transactions that are processed some (BTC guild) don't even process free transactions. The problem is luke-jr's pool explicitly blocks transactions including satoshi dice addresses. For whatever reason possibly to artificially lower transaction fees to increase adoption. If the miners acted economically this wouldn't be a problem.
- skore 14y agoAh, interesting! I would still be curious whether it's just a matter of price, though. Surely at some point the miners couldn't resist processing the transactions?
- muyuu 14y agoNope, they don't pay relatively high fees for the strain they produce. Although "relatively" is a very loose term I guess.