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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:14:57 -0500
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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Petersson <andreas@petersson.at>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain dust mitigation: Demurrage based
 Chain Vacuuming
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Andreas Petersson <andreas@petersson.at> wr=
ote:
> These discussed features are all useful but quite contradicting.
>
> I imagine that a user will be able to switch between different coin
> selection policies "minimize fees","max privacy","defragmentation","i
> don't care" and even switch between them for individual sends.

While thats a fine thing=E2=80=94 and a feature that I'd personally use=E2=
=80=94 its
not one that I expect to have a real measurable impact on the overall
network behavior.

For this kind of minutia especially, defaults are all powerful and
must be the best they can be. :)