Would increasing the fee and pushing it again help?
No. This blocking rule is about the creation and sending of dust that is completely worthless to the recipient, dust that is more expensive to spend out of a wallet than to discard. They are now considered non-standard transactions, and will not be accepted into the transaction memory pool. History:
Bitcoin didn't anticipate that people would pay fees to spam the blockchain - we required a fee for anything below .01, and if you have a profit model you can pay that...
Payments need to be self-funding, that the recipient will have a net gain by receiving the payment after including retransmittal costs.
So then what is the definition of not making "economic sense to spend"?... I would say it is a payment that as an input, when evaluated by minimum fee rules in aggregate with like inputs, would cost more to send in fees than the value of the payment. This is a payment likely to become an unspent TXO - for most it is cheaper to discard than to spend.
1 input: 257-259 bytes = minimum payment .00050001
2 inputs: 436-439 bytes = minimum payment .00025001
5 inputs: 976-980 bytes = minimum payment .00010001
6 inputs: 1157-9 bytes = minimum payment .00016668
8 inputs: 1514 bytes = minimum payment 0.00012501
39 inputs: 5848 bytes = minimum payment 0.00008975
So it looks like a good "receiving this payment will cost the recipient" threshold is any output that is less than 1/5 of minimum fee, from the examples, 20%-40% of minimum fee should be required.
The amount decided on was if the payment was three times smaller than the minimum fee. The final formula for exactly what is useless dust spam ends up being dependent on the construction of the particular sending transaction:
IsDust = TxOutAmount < 3 * MinRelayFeePerKB / 1000 * (TxOutBytes + 148)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2577Bitcoin design has the ability to recover hard drive space by pruning spent transactions. What you have created here is a transaction, that if a single recipient decides they can't spend their dust, has to be retained on every network node's hard drive forever.
This wouldn't be the first transaction in two days that blockchain.info has sent that is doomed.