Monero is really elegant in it's dynamic block size and slowly decreasing blocksize, it learned from (the mistakes of) it's big brother. However the arbitrary and hardcoded fee amount feels very similar to Bitcoin's fixed block size. Any thoughts or ideas on this? Why (for example) can't I as a user determine the fee, and let the miner decide whether or not to include the transaction?
We dont have political crisis in this community. If FP proposes a hard fork to lower that value everyone will support it.
its hardcoded to an extent. Smooth mentioned a possibility a while ago, I think its on the technical improvement thread, about how the minimum fee can be adjusted by anyone - its just that you need to be able to mine that transaction into a block.
so, the pool operators *could* go ahead and lower the fees if they really wanted to....
edited to add - its obviously more complicated than that, and you'd have to compile your own code or connect your modded simplewallet to a remote daemon that has a lowered fee...... but this is all doable.