Gavin Andresen - 2010-08-04 11:58:58

Well, right now nothing stops someone from creating a system where:

A sends  1.00000001 to B
B sends  1.00000000 back to A

Net result is a micro-payment and no processing fee.

... unless B started with zero bitcoins.  Then B is stuck; she can't send 1.0 back, because doing that would cause a 0.00000001 bitcoin 'change' transaction, which would trigger the 0.01BTC fee, which they can't pay (because they only have 1.0000000001).