On the IRC meeting today there was a long discussion on how to handle the old "transaction priority" stuff in 0.12. Over time the "transaction priority" stuff has added a huge amount of code and taken a bunch of otherwise-useful developer effort. There is still some debate about its usefulness going forward, but there was general agreement that it will either be removed entirely or replaced with something a bit less costly to maintain some time around 0.13.
With the mempool limiting stuff already in git master, high-priority relay is disabled when mempools are full. In addition, there was agreement to take the following steps for 0.12: * Mining code will use starting priority for ease of implementation * Default block priority size will be 0 * Wallet will no longer create 0-fee transactions when mempool limiting is in effect. What this means for you is, essentially, be more careful when relying on priority to mine your transactions. If mempools are full, your transactions will be increasingly less likely to be relayed and more miners may start disabling high-priority block space. Make sure you analyze previous blocks to determine if high-priority mining is still enabled and ensure your transactions will be relayed. Matt _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
