Transaction

j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMé<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=994.msg12237#msg12237">Quote from: satoshi on September 08, 2010, 05:30:14 PM</a></div><div class="quote">The current threshold is 200KB per block, or about 1000 transactions per block. &nbsp;I think it should be lowered to 50KB per block. &nbsp;That would still be more than 100 times the average transactions per block.<br/></div>I implemented this change in SVN rev 157.<br/><br/>The reason I previously made it so high was to allow very large transactions without hitting the transaction fee. &nbsp;The threshold was around 26,000 BTC for transactions made of 50 BTC generated coins. &nbsp;Even though it was 100 times easier to generate back then, only a few people ever encountered the fee at that level. &nbsp;The new threshold puts it at around 11,000 BTC for sending generated coins. &nbsp;It would mostly only be reached with generated bitcoins. &nbsp;If you bought your bitcoins, they'll be denominated in larger transactions and won't be anywhere near the fee limit, unless you bought them in several hundred separate transactions. &nbsp;Even if you do reach the fee level, you only have to pay it once to bundle your little transactions together.</div> text/html