[policy] lower default minrelaytxfee and incrementalrelayfee to 100sat/kvB

Let's say an attacker wants to use/exhaust the network's bandwidth, and
has the choice between renting resources from a commercial provider and
getting the network to "spam" itself it by sending unconfirmed
transactions. We'd like the latter to be more expensive than the former.

The bandwidth for relaying a transaction across the network is roughly
its serialized size (plus relay overhead) x number of nodes. A 1000vB
transaction is 1000-4000B serialized. With 100k nodes, that's 0.1-0.4GB
If the going rate for commercial services is 10c/GB, that's like 1-4c per kvB
of transaction data, so a 1000vB transaction should pay at least $0.04.

At a price of 120k USD/BTC, 100sat is about $0.12. This price allows us
to tolerate a large decrease in the conversion rate or increase in the
number of nodes.
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@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ from test_framework.p2p import (
)
from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
MAX_FEE_FILTER = Decimal(9170997) / COIN
NORMAL_FEE_FILTER = Decimal(100) / COIN
MAX_FEE_FILTER = Decimal(9936506) / COIN
NORMAL_FEE_FILTER = Decimal(10) / COIN
class P2PIBDTxRelayTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ class P2PIBDTxRelayTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
self.setup_clean_chain = True
self.num_nodes = 2
self.extra_args = [
["-minrelaytxfee={}".format(NORMAL_FEE_FILTER)],
["-minrelaytxfee={}".format(NORMAL_FEE_FILTER)],
["-minrelaytxfee={:.8f}".format(NORMAL_FEE_FILTER)],
["-minrelaytxfee={:.8f}".format(NORMAL_FEE_FILTER)],
]
def run_test(self):