{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6201","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6201/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6201/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6201/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6201","id":82674583,"number":6201,"title":"Restore minimum feerate to 10000 satoshis","user":{"login":"luke-jr","id":1095675,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1095675?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr","html_url":"https://github.com/luke-jr","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":20,"created_at":"2015-05-30T02:52:47Z","updated_at":"2015-05-31T20:04:10Z","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls/6201","html_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6201","diff_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6201.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6201.patch"},"body":"Only the minimum relay fee was intended to be reduced to 1000 satoshis, but due to mempool bugs, nodes can't handle divergent relay and mining fee rates properly yet.\r\nA quick workaround was merged for 0.9 by using the relay fee for mining (PR #3838), but without any consensus for the actual mining default to be dropped.\r\nUnfortunately, many miners seem to still run with default policies, and this fee rate makes spamming too cheap still.\r\nThis brings the minimum fee rate back to up 10000 satoshis, which reflects the last consensus for standard mining fee rate."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/comments/107240539","html_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6201#issuecomment-107240539","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6201","id":107240539,"user":{"login":"luke-jr","id":1095675,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1095675?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr","html_url":"https://github.com/luke-jr","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luke-jr/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-31T20:04:10Z","updated_at":"2015-05-31T20:04:10Z","body":"@morcos I am defining the expected behaviour in this regard, as the last default value to receive discussion and agreement. #3838 was a temporary workaround to avoid delaying the 0.9 release, and was not meant as a permanent change to the default miner policy.\r\n\r\n0.9 and 0.10 nodes will probably be around for a while, so if someone wishes to finally fix the relay/miner divergence issues, it should be possible to reduce the relay fee back to 0.01mBTC by 0.12. In any case, low priority transactions will still eventually become high priority transactions, get relayed, and then mined - so there's no major issue there that I can see."}}