Personally, I see the miners who are refusing all transactions (so their blocks propagate faster, less chance of orphans), who are only mining for the reward, completely ignoring that the purpose of mining is to process transactions in the first place, as being a bigger problem than Satoshi Dice is.
As long as Satoshi Dice's transactions are following the rules, that's all that matters to me. I don't care what the purpose the transactions are for. Not my business.
Look at the block explorer from time to time. I see plenty of found blocks that have 0 transactions in it, just the reward generation.
That is the big problem.
-- Smoov
I agree this is a point.
I know mining is a (mostly) free marked. But this guys are basically hurting the bitcoin users.
Wouldn't it be possible to thread this behavior as an attack on bitcoin, therefor not accepting this blocks, when there is a significant amount of transactions required?
Something like: if unconfirmedtransaktions >= 1000kb and blocksize <= 150kb then
reject block
Of course at least 51% of all miners would have to agree to this, otherwise miners that agree would only hurt them self.
It's not that simple. For example, it's pretty common for SD's flooding to fill more than 1000kb, so your rule would reject blocks from only the responsible miners.