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Satoshi dice transactions pay relatively high fees and is probably the only reason transactions have any fees at all. Miners already limit the number of free transactions that are processed some (BTC guild) don't even process free transactions. The problem is luke-jr's pool explicitly blocks transactions including satoshi dice addresses. For whatever reason possibly to artificially lower transaction fees to increase adoption. If the miners acted economically this wouldn't be a problem.



Ah, interesting!

I would still be curious whether it's just a matter of price, though. Surely at some point the miners couldn't resist processing the transactions?


Nope, they don't pay relatively high fees for the strain they produce. Although "relatively" is a very loose term I guess.




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