Quote from: spud21 on July 10, 2015, 10:38:58 AM

Quote from: NewLiberty on July 10, 2015, 08:58:23 AM

Quote from: spazzdla on July 09, 2015, 05:24:37 PM

The fees must go up or some measure to kill spamers.

Larger blocks does not prevent spammers.....

The fundamental premise here (that all attacks need a response) is entirely flawed.
To accept it is to surrender completely to the will of every would-be attacker that can force a response.

If you want your TX processed swiftly, raise your fee. You can fix this yourself, it needn't be something you ask ANYONE else to handle for you.

Exchanges often have a fixed default fee that you cannot change. Implementing your suggestion would require all exchanges and Bitcoin services to update their platforms to allow customers to set their own rate of transaction fees. Ideally they should also warn if the network is under attack and suggest an appropriate fee. It would take some time to get them all to agree to update, but it's possible.

What exchange do you use that has a fixed TX fee? Don't use that one.

For the exchange:
Any decent exchange will have the ability to set the fee, though it may be an "advanced" option.
If they do not do this, they have the burden themselves as part of the service to include an appropriate fee.

Badly coded exchanges fixing poor interfaces should happen long before protocol changes.

This is not the crisis you are thinking it is.