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May 05, 2013, 09:42:59 PM
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Maybe use litecoin, that's one of the reasons it was created.

Minimal fee is 0.1 LTC. It's 35 cents. Too high for micro-transactions.

Does anyone know which alts are currently ideal for micro-transactions?

Bytecoin works good with 0 BTE fee.
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May 05, 2013, 09:43:20 PM
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If the vast majority of the community doesn't like this move can't we just ignore the new patch and refuse to upgrade?

Go ahead. :-) I think you will be disappointed however.

If the majority doesn't upgrade and the majority doesn't want it.  Then the devs need to listen to the majority.  End of Story.

True. Unless of course some hard fork appears- then you're either going to need to get new devs or upgrade in a jiffy.

While technically of course you're right, the majority are the large mining pools and the really big miners who are by and large are quite active in talking about future developments. So it's really voting by hash power, and the people who control the vast amount of hash power aren't the same as the majority of people using bitcoin.

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May 05, 2013, 09:43:59 PM
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Maybe use litecoin, that's one of the reasons it was created.

Minimal fee is 0.1 LTC. It's 35 cents. Too high for micro-transactions.

Does anyone know which alts are currently ideal for micro-transactions?

Bytecoin works good with 0 BTE fee.

Litecoin tried that too. One person needs only start sending billions of satoshi sized transactions for the whole network to seize up.

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May 05, 2013, 09:45:41 PM
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Maybe use litecoin, that's one of the reasons it was created.

Minimal fee is 0.1 LTC. It's 35 cents. Too high for micro-transactions.

Does anyone know which alts are currently ideal for micro-transactions?

Bytecoin works good with 0 BTE fee.

Litecoin tried that too. One person needs only start sending billions of satoshi sized transactions for the whole network to seize up.

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May 05, 2013, 09:46:06 PM
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I agree with this we need to fork, bitcoin was once known for the small transactions, and they want to take that away. Gavin has an ego and it needs to be taken under control. This is ridiculous this is a fix because they don't want to spend time trying to fix the bloat of the blockchain thru censorship!

I think we need to ask ourselves if Bitcoin will be a small transaction currency in the future or if it will be the backbone of a new future financial system in which the regular user rarely interacts with the blockchain directly.

That said, rather then fork- why not devise an alt-coin or use bitcoin testnet coins for this?

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May 05, 2013, 09:48:52 PM
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If the vast majority of the community doesn't like this move can't we just ignore the new patch and refuse to upgrade?

Go ahead. :-) I think you will be disappointed however.

How so? If the vast majority stick with the 0.8.1 client I think the 0.8.2 client people would be disappointed.
Bitcoin is still Beta level software- there are still quite a few bugs to be worked out.

Um, transaction size is not a bug.

No, it's not, and I didn't mean to imply that. What I meant to convey is that you could still with this version of the bitcoin software if you want, but you would be missing out on all the bugs that get fixed with later version releases. Hence the "I think you will be disappointed". Because I think the future advantageous of the newer software will outweigh this issue.

Also, who says this is permanent? Maybe it's a stop gap measure to satisfy some pressing demands while a better solution is found.

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May 05, 2013, 09:49:59 PM
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If the vast majority of the community doesn't like this move can't we just ignore the new patch and refuse to upgrade?

Go ahead. :-) I think you will be disappointed however.

How so? If the vast majority stick with the 0.8.1 client I think the 0.8.2 client people would be disappointed.

Well they are fixing things in the upgrade releases, so I think in general you will want to upgrade. If not now, then eventually. Bitcoin is still Beta level software- there are still quite a few bugs to be worked out.

0.8.2 will have the small transaction change with some bug fixes...

We can upgrade to 0.8.3 that has the transaction change taken out and leaves in the bug fixes.

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May 05, 2013, 09:51:02 PM
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Created a poll for this subject
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196266.0

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=857670.0 GAWminers and associated things are not to be trusted, Especially the "mineral" exchange
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May 05, 2013, 09:51:14 PM
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I think we need to ask ourselves if Bitcoin will be a small transaction currency in the future or if it will be the backbone of a new future financial system in which the regular user rarely interacts with the blockchain directly.

Are u talking about Bank 2.0?
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May 05, 2013, 09:56:36 PM
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Has nobody read this thread?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191425.0;all

This pull request is the first step towards a market between miners (who want higher fees) and merchants/users (who want lower fees, but also want their transactions confirmed). Miners can already control what fees they accept, this pull lets users control (very clumsily, improvements on the road map) the fee they are willing to pay.

Eventually the goal is to have no hard-coded magic fee levels at all, so manual adjustments to reflect big exchange rate swings aren't needed any more. But we're not there yet.
If that's the direction the reference client is going then I consider this to be a positive change.
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May 05, 2013, 10:00:39 PM
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Most people who posted in this thread are utterly clueless about the subject of conversation. Go fork yourself a cluelesscoin or something.


I was one of the flamers until Gavin and Gmaxwell put me in my place. I think the reasoning and implications of this decision was not advertised and explained enough, And how temporary and easy to change back this is.

Guys we at least owe Gavin some gratitude to consider actually reading what is this all about. right?

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May 05, 2013, 10:10:46 PM
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Bitcoin is not suitable for micro transactions. This is all. Nothing new  here, it was pretty obvious from the very beginning that all those dusters are allowed to shit into blockchain only until there are not enough more serious transactions to fill the blocks.

If you want to spam blockchain, patch the client or use another one and hope that miners will be amenable to serve you for free.



Bitcoin IS suitable for microtransactions.  I do transcations shipping items that have actually been smaller then 20 mBTC.  The issue here is that microtransactions are not what is being blocked, what is being blocked is what bitcoiners call dust.  What is being blocked could be called  pico-transactions, and bitcoin is the only system that could potentially handle these but it is problematic.   

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May 05, 2013, 10:15:31 PM
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Gavin Andresen has changed the Bitcoin code to block any output with a value of less than 54uBTC:
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So, what happens when Bitcoin takes over the world economy, and 54 uBTC is worth a lot of money ($54 say)?  Then Bitcoin will only be usable for large-value transactions...  It will be more like the existing inter-bank wire-transfer system at that point...
Maybe use litecoin, that's one of the reasons it was created.

Not really.  Litecoin is FASTER. Litecoin handles micro transactions quite poorly though because the fee is actually higher on a dollar basis than bitcoin.  Until litecoin is patched it costs .1 LTC or about 40 cents for a transaction.  If I were to take litecoin for my $2 orders might actually cost the customer more then Paypal would charge me (in microtrans mode)! 

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May 05, 2013, 10:17:17 PM
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What about when you do a "sendmany" transaction?  For when you need to pay 200+ people with one transaction in a batch, would this 54uBTC law apply to the whole sum of all the payments within the transaction or each amount within it?  If we can send them in batch safely as long as the total was >54uBTC, then people won't have anything to complain about, perhaps then the thing to do would be to wait until you have enough transactions to send.
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May 05, 2013, 10:20:32 PM
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What about when you do a "sendmany" transaction?  For when you need to pay 200+ people with one transaction in a batch, would this 54uBTC law apply to the whole sum of all the payments within the transaction or each amount within it?  If we can send them in batch safely as long as the total was >54uBTC, then people won't have anything to complain about, perhaps then the thing to do would be to wait until you have enough transactions to send.

"Treat dust outputs as non-standard" said in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2577.
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May 05, 2013, 10:20:54 PM
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Admit utter defeat in this argument if you dare.

LOL

Perhaps I meant micropayments. In that context, micropayments are a viable use-case. But sending less than a penny? Bitcoin in it's current incarnation will eventually be unable to handle that, the transaction fee would be too high.

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May 05, 2013, 10:21:12 PM
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What about when you do a "sendmany" transaction?  For when you need to pay 200+ people with one transaction in a batch, would this 54uBTC law apply to the whole sum of all the payments within the transaction or each amount within it?  If we can send them in batch safely as long as the total was >54uBTC, then people won't have anything to complain about, perhaps then the thing to do would be to wait until you have enough transactions to send.

Any transaction containing outputs less than 54uBTC will not be relayed

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May 05, 2013, 10:21:38 PM
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Most people who posted in this thread are utterly clueless about the subject of conversation. Go fork yourself a cluelesscoin or something.


Lol, says the guy that told people to buy above $200 before the crash and then is commenting on cluelessness.  You even asked if the crash was over and it crashed again down to $50.  You have no idea what you are saying.  End of story.

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May 05, 2013, 10:26:50 PM
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If the vast majority of the community doesn't like this move can't we just ignore the new patch and refuse to upgrade?

Go ahead. :-) I think you will be disappointed however.

How so? If the vast majority stick with the 0.8.1 client I think the 0.8.2 client people would be disappointed.
Bitcoin is still Beta level software- there are still quite a few bugs to be worked out.

Um, transaction size is not a bug.

No, it's not, and I didn't mean to imply that. What I meant to convey is that you could still with this version of the bitcoin software if you want, but you would be missing out on all the bugs that get fixed with later version releases. Hence the "I think you will be disappointed". Because I think the future advantageous of the newer software will outweigh this issue.

Also, who says this is permanent? Maybe it's a stop gap measure to satisfy some pressing demands while a better solution is found.

Rabbit, I like your posts I really do.  But you are defending something only the bitcoin "millionaires" want.  So far the majority of the bitcoin world is against this if you check the other post/poll in this sub and the votes.  I don't care if it's permanent or not.  Transaction size should not be limited. Period.
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May 05, 2013, 10:27:35 PM
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i've never understood why there needs to be rules prohibiting these transactions. just enforce appropriate fees. "oh, you wanna send a satoshi? well ok... but the fee for that is MORE then a satoshi, so, you know. proceed at your own risk."

doesn't block transactions, but makes them much, much less likely to occur.

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