Re: [ANN] [FRESH] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.5.2 & 0.6.0rc1 released
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)
Of course, it wasn't my intention for the patch to remove ALL fees. It only removes the necessity of paying the fee which started around 0.3.23.It reverts the client behavior to the one from 0.3.20.
I'm not quite happy with that, why not eliminate forced transaction fees altogether?
Because some fees are mandatory, and the network rejects transactions without those fees as being spam.
I suspect the transaction you mentioned above won't ever be confirmed.
Yes, exactly.
The only mandatory fees that are not-really-so-mandatory are the ones which were introduced around 0.3.23.
The first conception of my fork was to remove necessity of any fee. But removing other requirements
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A suggestion - If you want to be really useful, try coding a proper dialog like "Are you sure you really want not to include a fee ? Transaction may never be confirmed !" or/and a configuration setting in the bitcoin.conf file, so that power users/people who know what they are doing can send whatever transaction they want to.
Right now, this fork is not a "proper" solution. With a patch like that, it could become good enough to be pulled into the main bitcoin tree perhaps.