Specially because everybody's pushing for the emergence of a "free market" for tx fee. As I understand it, it would mean I can decide of a minimum fee if I want to, it is not that esoteric as a whishes.
But whatever is the reason for people to use it or not, if it exists as a parameter it should at least be documented for advanced users and developers. My view is that, if as a user of bitcoind I interact with it at the level of raw transactions, I would need a full documentation and I should be able to understand the reasoning of the core devs about what makes sense as a usage or not.
But whatever is the reason for people to use it or not, if it exists as a parameter it should at least be documented for advanced users and developers. My view is that, if as a user of bitcoind I interact with it at the level of raw transactions, I would need a full documentation and I should be able to understand the reasoning of the core devs about what makes sense as a usage or not.
There should never be undocumented "features". How terribly unprofessional. If they don't want people using it, they should not put it in.
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It was left out because the developers did not want users to tinker with it. Having an inconsistent fee policy across nodes has a devastating effect on the network. If each node has its own relay policy, it would be difficult for the client to decide what fee to use. This will result in transactions not being propagated.
here's the discussion on github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2577 
