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Title: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: shark255 on December 13, 2013, 12:24:33 PM
Subject, and is it depends on amount of transferred coins ?


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: Meital on December 13, 2013, 03:34:49 PM
Subject, and is it depends on amount of transferred coins ?

Please refer to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees#Settings
The fee depends on the size of the tx (in KB), rather than the amount.


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: nerFohanzo on December 13, 2013, 03:39:30 PM
Subject, and is it depends on amount of transferred coins ?

Wallets determine the fee automatically, you dont need to worry about it. 0.0001 is about 10 cents


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: BlueMonkey on December 13, 2013, 04:11:27 PM
Subject, and is it depends on amount of transferred coins ?

Please refer to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees#Settings
The fee depends on the size of the tx (in KB), rather than the amount.
As you said. Not the amount but the size of tx


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: quone17 on December 13, 2013, 04:16:21 PM
The weird thing is that I guess there is a way to send the inputs only without paying a fee.  Apparently though then there is a chance the transaction won't be processed/picked up byt he miners.  I wonder what will happen when the transactions fee gets to be a lot of money (i.e. transaction fee is .0001 but that costs like $50 in US dollars).  Seems like it will make it so people won't want to buy anything small with BTC because the transaction fee is so large.


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: shark255 on December 13, 2013, 04:46:52 PM
I have found that i was looking for - "Note that a typical transaction is 500 bytes, so the typical transaction fee for low-priority transactions is 0.1 mBTC (0.0001 BTC), regardless of the number of bitcoins sent."

Many thanks for replies!


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: Jacce on December 13, 2013, 04:51:05 PM
The weird thing is that I guess there is a way to send the inputs only without paying a fee.  Apparently though then there is a chance the transaction won't be processed/picked up byt he miners.  I wonder what will happen when the transactions fee gets to be a lot of money (i.e. transaction fee is .0001 but that costs like $50 in US dollars).  Seems like it will make it so people won't want to buy anything small with BTC because the transaction fee is so large.

If I understood correctly the transaction fee isn't set in stone, but rather determined by the community.


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on December 13, 2013, 04:53:55 PM
The weird thing is that I guess there is a way to send the inputs only without paying a fee.  Apparently though then there is a chance the transaction won't be processed/picked up byt he miners.  I wonder what will happen when the transactions fee gets to be a lot of money (i.e. transaction fee is .0001 but that costs like $50 in US dollars).  Seems like it will make it so people won't want to buy anything small with BTC because the transaction fee is so large.

If I understood correctly the transaction fee isn't set in stone, but rather determined by the community.

Correct.  The MINIMUM fee (to relay low priority txs) has been reduced four times by a factor of 100x.  If the original minimum was still used it would be about $10 today.


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: zengryT on December 13, 2013, 04:59:05 PM
The weird thing is that I guess there is a way to send the inputs only without paying a fee.  Apparently though then there is a chance the transaction won't be processed/picked up byt he miners.  I wonder what will happen when the transactions fee gets to be a lot of money (i.e. transaction fee is .0001 but that costs like $50 in US dollars).  Seems like it will make it so people won't want to buy anything small with BTC because the transaction fee is so large.

If I understood correctly the transaction fee isn't set in stone, but rather determined by the community.

Determined by the miners I would say. But most use Bitcoin-qt fee rules


Title: Re: what is the transaction value fee must be?
Post by: Jacce on December 13, 2013, 05:02:09 PM
The weird thing is that I guess there is a way to send the inputs only without paying a fee.  Apparently though then there is a chance the transaction won't be processed/picked up byt he miners.  I wonder what will happen when the transactions fee gets to be a lot of money (i.e. transaction fee is .0001 but that costs like $50 in US dollars).  Seems like it will make it so people won't want to buy anything small with BTC because the transaction fee is so large.

If I understood correctly the transaction fee isn't set in stone, but rather determined by the community.

Determined by the miners I would say. But most use Bitcoin-qt fee rules

That was what I meant with community, but yeah, I guess I was a bit unclear.