The software has always dictated which transactions are relayed, or not.

This change makes it easier to change that limit, in fact.

You idiots know it's just a default setting that can be changed, right?

You can just change this in the config, and connect to a few nodes in pools that accept non-standard tx's.

I will definitely not update. Even if some agree this was correct, basing it in the price of USD... 54ubtc will be 1 cent of a dollar when its value is aprox 184 USD, so what's the point to have a digital cryptocurrency that can't allow even that? And you know changing it deppending on USD price is totally wrong

Why not just make a fork? I think it's just one or two lines of code, so should be easily done.

It's open source.  Fork away.

Though the consequence is that you remain at a higher, hardcoded fee level, and people will still dump megabytes worth of non-currency data into the blockchain (wikileaks cables etc.).

You just make an observation:
- if you there are zero people ranting about a certain modification then the issue is non-controversial;
- if there are people ranting, then it's controversial.

[ETA this was in reply to Loozik]

So the devs should only spend time making changes that no-one is going to rant about?

The trouble with that approach is, sometimes the people who rant, are idiots. Must we really all remain non-controversial so that morons don't start shouting?

Should biologists and climate scientists stop studying evolution and global warming because there are yahoos out there for whom those topics are controversial?

Should we abhor censorship so much that we work ourselves up into righteous indignation whenever someone shrilly cries out that censorship is happening? Even when it's, you know, not?

Perhaps a better idea would be, instead of tut-tutting whenever controversy arises, maybe we should study what both sides of the controversy have to say, so that we can quickly come to the realisation that one side consists of thoughtful people who know what they are doing, while the other side consists of people who SHOUT IN CAPS to cover their inability to think coherently?

I don't know how gmaxwell, jgarzik and Gavin put up with this, really I don't.

I just hope they realize that for every one of these screaming lunatics who can't read, there are tens of thousands of us who appreciate their hard work. Thanks, guys.

I'm not trying to pump altcoins, but if staying on 0.8.1 will not create a fork, then I think it's a great idea. Let the miners decide!

Ultimately, there's going to be all sorts of diversity in which miners include which transactions. Some with high fees, some with low fees, some with NO fees! Some that allow dust, others that don't.

Exactly.

Gavin is going to fuck over bitcoin with this.