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Title: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: dgamer5000 on June 04, 2011, 07:29:05 AM There doesn't seem to be an API Call that can do this. At least, I can't find one. Yet, the bitcoin client is able to do it. Any idea how I can do it?
Title: Re: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: theymos on June 04, 2011, 07:41:00 AM The selected coins are randomized with each send, so an estimate wouldn't be entirely reliable. Someone recently published a patch that added "prepared" transactions, though.
Generally, if you're sending more than a few BTC and the amount you're sending is much less than the total amount of BTC in your wallet, there will be no required fee. Title: Re: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: Gavin Andresen on June 04, 2011, 10:58:57 AM What theymos said. There's another thread about this, too, and I'll ask here what I asked there: what is the use case for an 'estimate transaction fee' function? What if the estimate is wrong, what would your application do?
Title: Re: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: Pieter Wuille on June 04, 2011, 11:03:40 AM See the 3rd commit here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/289
It introduces RPC calls to prepare a transaction, inspect it, and then choose to send or cancel it. Title: Re: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: Dude65535 on June 04, 2011, 01:49:50 PM The estimate being wrong would not be a big problem if there were a way to resend an existing transaction with a fee (or a bigger fee) attached. For the gui I would think the right place for such a command would either be right clicking the 0 confirmation transaction or in the window brought up by double clicking the transaction.
Title: Re: Checking if a transaction is going to require the 0.01BTC transaction fee. Post by: redshark1802 on June 04, 2011, 03:18:16 PM Wouldn't it be possible to send X and the client automatically calculates the fees(Y) for it?
Resulting in X(new) = X(old)-Y? regards, redshark1802 |