Gavin Andresen - 2012-07-30 17:22:03

At the moment there is no way in the bitcoin protocol to 'add a fee to a stuck transaction' to entice a miner to pick it up which would be handy.
That's not quite right.

The protocol supports it-- just take the output of an unconfirmed transaction (paying to you) and then broadcast a send-to-self transaction that uses it as input and has a big, juicy fee.

I think the Eligius mining pool might even notice and confirm both transactions-- Luke DashJr has a pull request to change the reference implementation's transaction selection code to consider fees for sets of related transactions when deciding what to include in a block.