Default limitfreerelay value #7178

issue bitcoinfees opened this issue on December 7, 2015

bitcoinfees commented at 6:24 AM on December 7, 2015: none

I haven't been following too closely the developments around coin age priority, but my understanding is that it is being phased out (hence DEFAULT_BLOCK_PRIORITY_SIZE being set to 0).

Shouldn't DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY be set to zero as well, then? If priority block space is being phased out, then free transactions are going to have a much harder time getting into blocks (according to what I'm observing as well), so to prevent a bunch of un-mineable txs from piling up we should discourage limitfreerelay.

Also, it makes it easier for people to double-spend their zero-fee transactions, if those transactions weren't hanging around in a bunch of mempools because of high priority, yet not being able to be confirmed.
pstratem commented at 6:29 AM on December 7, 2015: contributor

limitfreerelay is effectively made obsolete by the mempool limiter which is based entirely on feerate
jonasschnelli added the label TX fees and policy on Dec 7, 2015
meshcollider commented at 1:22 PM on September 5, 2017: contributor

This was made obsolete by #9602 I believe, can be closed
Leviathn commented at 1:33 PM on September 5, 2017: none

Agree with @pstratem & @meshcollider -- definitely closeable.
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