# Gavin Andresen # 2013-04-27 01:11:39 # https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=188695.msg1956034#msg1956034 Meh. @p{par} Lots of other ways that merchants could arrange to pay transaction fees, I don't think we need a hard fork to solve that problem. @p{par} E.g. : child-pays-for-parent. @p{par} Or an extension to the payment protocol so the merchant provides an already-signed SIGHASH_SINGLE / SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY input to pay the fee that the client includes as the first input in the transaction. @p{par}