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> If only there was some way to increase the space available for transactions!

Hehe.

> But your overall point is well taken: Bitcoin is sociopathic software where "sorry for your loss" is considered a feature, not a bug. Nonstandard hand-rolled transaction? Fuck you, you deserve to get robbed.

Well except, in this case, the miner is offering to give the fee back. In general, you're right though. :)

Even if you hand-roll a transaction, when you try to send it, Bitcoin Core will parse it and refuse to send it if the fees are too high:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2949

There's always more space in the mempool :)

And IBLT can amortize block latency very effectively https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...