fair.   i suppose you could support cpfp in any dust filtering.   im not a fan, but I think its the only legit way to defend the chain from non money use cases

On Mon, May 8, 2023, 7:58 PM Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
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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