rich1.0npub1t9txg5aevth45pu9hcz075tj3ch25fydn8c38wew90qjjdjv3rqq3r6cf0https://nostr.ae/npub1t9txg5aevth45pu9hcz075tj3ch25fydn8c38wew90qjjdjv3rqq3r6cf0njumphttps://nostr.ae📅 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.