Quote from: Insti on August 04, 2010, 2:58:31 PM UTCIt seems to do more harm than good because it prevents micropayment implementations such as the one bytemaster is suggesting.
Bitcoin isn’t practical for very small micropayments. Not for things like pay per search or per page view without an aggregating mechanism, certainly not things needing to pay less than 0.01. The dust spam limit is a first try at intentionally trying to prevent overly small micropayments like that.
Bitcoin is practical for smaller transactions than are practical with existing payment methods. Small enough to include what you might call the top of the micropayment range. But it doesn’t claim to be practical for arbitrarily small micropayments.
Why not? I don’t see how size would make a difference. Is it just due to the number of transactions that the system is able to handle?