Quote from: Foxpup on October 18, 2015, 05:03:14 AM

Quote from: bitvisitor on October 18, 2015, 01:17:46 AM

At the bare minimum we need a mechanism to determine what fee is necessary to propagate a transaction.

Why? The minimum fee to relay a transaction is far less than the minimum fee to confirm a transaction in a reasonable period of time, and Bitcoin Core already calculates the latter automatically, which is all real users care about. Anyone who overrides this recommendation to pay the absolute minimum should "be aware that this can end up in a never confirming transaction" to quote the warning given when you attempt to do this. Bitcoin is not, never has been, and never will be suitable for microtransactions, nor was it designed or intended to be.

I am using the cli and I do not see any way to get this recommended number and never even knew that it existed. Also, if Bitcoin can't handle micro-transactions then it cannot scale. Let's hope that isn't the case.