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Re:Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact... by wmf on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:51PM (#14721005)
If only there was some way to increase the space available for transactions!

But your overall point is well taken: Bitcoin is sociopathic software where "sorry for your loss" is considered a feature, not a bug. Nonstandard hand-rolled transaction? Fuck you, you deserve to get robbed.

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Re:Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact... by zwily on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:57PM (#14721066)
> If only there was some way to increase the space available for transactions!

Hehe.

> But your overall point is well taken: Bitcoin is sociopathic software where "sorry for your loss" is considered a feature, not a bug. Nonstandard hand-rolled transaction? Fuck you, you deserve to get robbed.

Well except, in this case, the miner is offering to give the fee back. In general, you're right though. :)

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Re:Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact... by TD-Linux on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:20PM (#14721263)
Even if you hand-roll a transaction, when you try to send it, Bitcoin Core will parse it and refuse to send it if the fees are too high:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2949

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Re:Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact... by pas on Sunday July 09, 2017 @07:32AM (#14729267)
There's always more space in the mempool :)

And IBLT can amortize block latency very effectively https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...

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