# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-03-02 16:05:41
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148211.msg1575271#msg1575271

The default block-filling algorithm that most miners are running is: @p{par}

+ Fill up part of the block with the highest transactions, regardless of fees @p{brk}
+ Then fill up the rest of the block with as many fee-paying transactions as possible, highest fee-per-kilobyte first. @p{par}

... so flooding the network with high-fee transactions won't "stall Bitcoin."  Well, except for people playing SatoshiDice or doing something else that results in lots of low-priority fee-paying transactions (and even there, they could always opt to pay a little more in transaction fees). @p{brk}