New 0.00001 spam attack

[goosoodude]

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Except for people who want micropayments (and, um, that's what these appear to be, LOTS of them), I still have not seen ANY convincing arguments against the idea of raising minimums:

1) minimum BTC sent to, say, BTC0.001

and/or

2) minimum transaction fee to, say, BTC0.0002

I would rather have a robust BTC Ecosystem that gets my payments through in good time than worry about sending amounts of less than US$0.20.............

You really got no argument? Then how about that? Raising fees will simply mean spammers raise their fee too. Done. If the spammers are miner corporations then the cost would not be a big problem.

And no, it would be bad for adoption when we would make using bitcoin more expensive. Adoption is the only way for bitcoin to survive. Miners shouldn't shoot themselves in the knee.

[Meuh6879]

good point and view ... it rises ... 

[goosoodude]

Except for people who want micropayments (and, um, that's what these appear to be, LOTS of them), I still have not seen ANY convincing arguments against the idea of raising minimums:

1) minimum BTC sent to, say, BTC0.001

and/or

2) minimum transaction fee to, say, BTC0.0002

I would rather have a robust BTC Ecosystem that gets my payments through in good time than worry about sending amounts of less than US$0.20.............

A payment of BTC0.001 comes in the category of micropayments, right? Anyway who want to pay someone with BTC0.0001 or lesser amounts, other than the spammers? In my opinion, BTC0.001 should be the absolute minimum. And the minimum transaction fee should be BTC0.0001. This will decrease the spamming quite a lot.

Who are you to say that bitcoins only should be a currency for high values? Do we need a second Western Union where sending money only makes sense when you send enough because the fees are high? It should be possible to use bitcoins as a normal currency. And you don't achieve that by blocking people from buying small things too.

[Meuh6879]

Post fees to emit 200 USD to bank or other post accounts = 5,5 USD (2,8% of fees)
Bitcoin network to emit 200 USD = 0,003 USD (0,00145 % of fees)






no problem here.

[amaclin]

no problem here.

1) no problem here today
2) the problem is not here

[goosoodude]

Post fees to emit 200 USD to bank or other post accounts = 5,5 USD (2,8% of fees)
Bitcoin network to emit 200 USD = 0,003 USD (0,00145 % of fees)

no problem here.

Im not sure what bank accounts you use. I usually pay zero fees for transactions.

Regardless of that... bitcoin was created to not need a bank. I think we shouldn't watch at the banks and try to "be not so bad as they at least". Bitcoin should be better. Useable for all, even developing countries where the average income is $1 per day.