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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32•com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] tx max fee
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 23:57:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZFmMh6A7wtjgd1Xj@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJowKg+1WwH_ub9JA=RhnFqvC14RuK4_f4WmJC2P_FYAa78q-Q@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-09  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-07 23:59 Erik Aronesty
2023-05-08 23:57 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2023-05-09  0:04   ` Erik Aronesty
2023-05-10 16:19 vjudeu
2023-05-10 17:42 ` Erik Aronesty
2023-05-11 11:02   ` vjudeu
2023-05-11 12:32     ` Kalle Rosenbaum
2023-05-11 15:20       ` Andrew Baine
2023-05-12  0:06     ` Tom Harding

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