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It's more to do with certain services (SatoshiDice) sending very small, useless transactions through the network (SatoshiDice is a gambling service, they send a
by new299 14y ago
It's more to do with certain services (SatoshiDice) sending very small, useless transactions through the network (SatoshiDice is a gambling service, they send a small transaction to tell you you lost). All those small transactions put a burden on the network.
Regarding the CP URL, it was actually several hundreds of links in a large FAQ, and I don't think this changes anything regarding encoding data in the block chain.
- richcollins 14y agoAFAICT, this only applies to bitcoin-qt. Miners can still accept small tx into a block from other clients.
- new299 14y agoFrom what I read on bitcointalk I believe this applies to miners too (if they use bitcoind). However it would be possible to run a mining pool which would accept small txs with no fee, and clients would still accept them as valid blocks.