📅 Original date posted:2023-05-08
🗒️ Summary of this message: A proposal to change the maximum fee for transactions to output amounts could help with certain attacks, but would negatively impact applications like OpenTimestamps.
📝 Original message:On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 07:59:40PM -0400, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> possible to change tx "max fee" to output amounts?
>
> seems like the only use case that would support such a tx is spam/dos type
> stuff that satoshi warned about
>
> its not a fix for everything, but it seems could help a bit with certain
> attacks
With CPFP it often makes sense for a transaction to have a fee larger than the
output amounts.
This proposal would also screw over applications like my OpenTimestamps
service.
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https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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2023-06-07 23:21:37
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