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Re: [ANN] [FRESH] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.5.2 & 0.6.0rc1 released
by
gmaxwell
on 12/02/2012, 19:48:21 UTC
Since this is back on the top of the forum— it's time for the regular reminder:

This is a terrible patch that puts you at risk and no one should run it.   The overwhelming majority of transactions with the stock reference client do not pay fees, the average _total_ fees per block are about 0.02 BTC— pointing out the lie that miners give a crap about collecting fees from you— the reference client only adds fees to transactions when it would not mine or relay them had they come from someone else, when they are objectively indistinguishable from a DOS attack.  When it does add fees they are usually only 0.0005 BTC.

Recovering from stuck transactions is a major pain and requires careful editing of the wallet binaries.  When a transaction is stuck it may lock up far more than its value.

These patches also don't do what they claim to do— they'll still apply fees in some cases. (Though at least thats a good thing)

It's also the case that no one actively involved and informed in Bitcoin's development is reviewing these patches.  If ShadowOfHarbringer was actually competent do this this work he would not be making misleading claims and would instead be working on code to help users safely recover from stuck transactions.  I would not run code released by him.