📅 Original date posted:2011-09-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: Luke-Jr argues that "non-standard" transactions with insufficient fees should not be penalized as they are policy decisions, not protocol violations.
📝 Original message:Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:57:00 PM Gavin Andresen wrote:
>> I'm looking for review of this pull request:
>> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/517
> "Non-standard" transactions, or those with "insufficient" fees should not be
> penalised. These are properly relay/miner policy decisions, not protocol
> violations, and should be made more easily configurable, not punished for
> configuration.
>
>
A few non-standard transactions are probably legitimate. A whole bunch
of them are probably not. I would think that assigning a point or two
of badness to a peer sending one is pretty reasonable, with the
understanding that we would need to adjust that as the network evolves.
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2023-06-07 02:26:17
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