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by josephagoss 4835 days ago
I think the "max block size" issue is one of the biggest ones at the moment. Oh and the censorship of S.Dice sets a terrible precedent too.
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Do you have a reference link about what you mean by censorship of Satoshi Dice?
I'm not the parent but he's probably referring to the opinion of some that SD is the equivalent of a spammer and its transactions should be blocked. You can find lots of threads on bitcointalk.org discussing it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150405.0

SD notifies losers by sending them a very small transaction. Because of this SD generates the majority of BTC transactions and inflates the size of the generated blocks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150405.msg1598258#ms...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150481.0

There were a few more discussions around this time too, a few people including a pool operator want to block all businesses and applications that "abuse" the blockchain. This shows that a few higher ups in the Bitcoin community are short-sighted and very selfish, and also shows the problems Bitcoin will have at getting any larger.

I read a few pages of the forum posts about SD's transaction "spam". Could you clarify the notion in the thread that SD is generating more money for themselves by using these micro-transactions rather than internalized accounting?
The spam is the 1 Satoshi (0.00000001 Bitcoin) sent to players to confirm a loss, whereas a win they send a healthy amount back (The winnings)

At the moment Bitcoin cannot handle lots of transactions made with its smallest unit. This is being called spamming the block chain.

I gathered most of that. My confusion was that people on the bitcoin forum were implying that performing loads of 1 Satoshi transactions was financially beneficial for SD somehow, as well as to miners.
I can't think of any way SatoshiDice benefits from the spam it creates. It's almost like a form of trolling. If this spam benefits no one a rule change shouldn't be a big deal.