# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-06-27 15:07:21
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22434.msg292229#msg292229

A long-term fix for transaction fees (as opposed to the ad-hoc "we'll just try to guess what the 'right' fees are") is high on my priority list for bitcoin. There are only two very-high-priority things on my bitcoin wish list:  fix scaling issues and make sure we have any infrastructure in place to support ultra-high-security wallets. Fixing transaction fees is a scaling issue. @p{par}

"Pick a fee and hope my transaction makes it into a block" is @p{(bf}NOT@p{bf)} the right answer. And we've already seen what happens when there is a mismatch between miner transaction fee policies and client transaction fees (remember the big backlog of low-priority transactions we had a couple of months ago?). @p{brk}