Re: [bitcoin-dev] Refund Excesss Fee Hard Fork Proposal

2017-03-31 Thread praxeology_guy via bitcoin-dev
> That would have the unfortunate effect of incentivizing miners to not > completely fill blocks, because low fee marginal transactions could cost them > money. Look at the fee distribution. The vast majority of fee income comes from txs w/ fees near the LIFB. The blocks will be full... but I

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Refund Excesss Fee Hard Fork Proposal

2017-03-31 Thread Bram Cohen via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:29 PM, praxeology_guy via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Change the fee policy to cause all fee/byte in a block to be reduced to > the lowest included fee/byte. Change transactions to specify how/which > outputs get what portions of

[bitcoin-dev] Refund Excesss Fee Hard Fork Proposal

2017-03-31 Thread praxeology_guy via bitcoin-dev
TL;DR (In layman terms): Refund any excess fee amounts higher than the lowest included fee in a block. === Proposed Hard Fork Change === LIFB: Lowest Included Fee/Byte Change the fee policy to cause all fee/byte in a block to be reduced to the lowest included fee/byte. Change transactions to