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		tlrobinson on May 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin will soon block small transaction outputs This isn't a protocol change, so it's not really a big deal. It's basically a strongly worded (coded) suggestion from the core developers to discourage micro-transactions and blockchain spam (SatoshiDice, encoding data in the blockchain, etc) If miners decide they still want to include these transactions, they can. This is the way it should be since miners bear the cost of every transaction in the form of computing/network/storage resources.

dragontamer on May 6, 2013 [–]

Miners also are the ones running the system. If you control 51% of bitcoin miners, you control the BTC network as well as the rules.

A malicious BTC miner would want the BTC network to be as hard as possible. The fewer people mining, the easier it is to take over the network.

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