while we're all talking about Bitcoin Core Relay settings, can we fight about drop the default fee from 1 sat/vbtye to something like 0.1 sat/vbyte?
Its probably a DoS protection so only txns with non-negligible fees are validated, but that was likely set way back when 1 sat/vbtye was literally nothing.
A free market of fees would often have fees dip below 1 sat/vbyte when mempools are close to clearing if not for the paternal relay policies.
Why pay 1 sat/vbtye when 0.5 sat/vbtye do trick?
Didn't it originally have zero fee requirement?
yeah looks like it
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000319e53b2b1beaeaac44873c4d8ae8ac7d083ab8f7cf71acf11a79c
Yeah I just remember reading about it but wasn't 100%. Way to verify
yeah same here - glad I checked though. It probably kicked in when blocks started filling a few years in.
I just had to spot check a few block heights and it actually too a ways out before there weren't like 100 empty blocks in a row
Tried a quick google to find conversation about zero fee but couldn't surface it. Oh well
