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June 19, 2011, 06:36:43 PM
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Transaction fees for transfering BITCOINS  -- WTF

I have been testing transfering BITCOINS from web based to my wallet client. However I have noticed that if I try to transfer from my wallet client to a web based site the local wallet client prompts me for a "Transaction fees"

WTF... i understood the concept behind BITCOIN was FREE. 

CAN someone explain on a BASIC LEVEL... i do not need buzz words in the explain. why a fee Huh
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June 19, 2011, 06:39:10 PM
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This system needs money to sustain itself.

No currency will ever be tax free.
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June 19, 2011, 06:46:12 PM
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bitcoingod, go and read the wiki...

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June 19, 2011, 06:48:04 PM
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Transaction fees for transfering BITCOINS  -- WTF

I have been testing transfering BITCOINS from web based to my wallet client. However I have noticed that if I try to transfer from my wallet client to a web based site the local wallet client prompts me for a "Transaction fees"

WTF... i understood the concept behind BITCOIN was FREE. 

CAN someone explain on a BASIC LEVEL... i do not need buzz words in the explain. why a fee Huh

#1 Paying Miners once the 21million "seed" coins have been generated.

#2 Preventing a Denial of Service attack: where someone would flood the bitcoin network with tons of "junk" transactions, using up tons of CPU resources and bandwidth.
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June 19, 2011, 06:49:34 PM
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I understood that the system was decentralized and hence NO FEES,   I am glad I started small with the BITCOIN.... now seems more like a SCAM !!

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YELL OUT SCAM !!!
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There's no way to "pre-calculate" fees as miners are free to set the fee policy they want. This standard policy that's being followed by most miners is a set of arbitrary rules that were coded into the standard client, but these are not carved on stone or anything. Miners are free to come up with their own policies.

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I AM GLAD I SOLD A LARGE !!! AMOUNT OF BITCOIN over the last few hours then
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June 19, 2011, 06:59:02 PM
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I understood that the system was decentralized and hence NO FEES,   I am glad I started small with the BITCOIN.... now seems more like a SCAM !!

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There's no way to "pre-calculate" fees as miners are free to set the fee policy they want. This standard policy that's being followed by most miners is a set of arbitrary rules that were coded into the standard client, but these are not carved on stone or anything. Miners are free to come up with their own policies.

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I AM GLAD I SOLD A LARGE !!! AMOUNT OF BITCOIN over the last few hours then

Yaaaawn, someone's over-reacting.  Grow up.
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June 19, 2011, 06:59:56 PM
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It seems we have a troll  Grin

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June 19, 2011, 07:01:50 PM
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tHANKS for the feed back ... I need to blog more about this .... and DUMP my lemons (BITCOIN) on the trading market.   

what a waste.
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June 19, 2011, 07:04:34 PM
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It seems we have a troll  Grin

CHECK THIS CLOWNS (  Shox  )  comments ... zit face telling a 40 year old...

sure, great comments clown,  check the market over the next few days ..  
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June 19, 2011, 07:06:57 PM
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It seems we have a troll  Grin

CHECK THIS CLOWNS comments ... zit face telling a 40 year old...

sure, great comments clown,  check the market over the next few days .. 

You're taking it personally against other people because you can't understand the concept behind a 0.65% fee? Dumb.
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June 19, 2011, 07:09:29 PM
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It seems we have a troll  Grin
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Yaaaawn, someone's over-reacting.  Grow up.

You're taking it personally against other people because you can't understand the concept behind a 0.65% fee? Dumb.

SON YOU MADE IT PERSONAL.... with your comment and a disgrace to the forum help and derogatory comment

Was asking for help and clearification. 
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June 19, 2011, 07:14:12 PM
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For what it's worth, you don't have to generate transactions with fees. However, transactions without fees might not be processed by the miners until they reach a certain age. The priority of a transaction is based on its inputs' age, values, and the overall transaction size as sum(age*value)/size, at least in the default client. Once that reaches a certain threshold of block age from the inputs, it will be allowed by the default mining code to be processed as a free transaction, as long as there aren't many higher priority transactions ahead of it.
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June 19, 2011, 07:16:04 PM
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SON YOU MADE IT PERSONAL.... with your comment and a disgrace to the forum help and derogatory comment

Was asking for help and clearification. 

Derogatory comments like clown and zitface? But wait I didn't say those things, SON.  You were looking for a fight apparently.
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June 19, 2011, 07:18:00 PM
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For what it's worth, you don't have to generate transactions with fees. However, transactions without fees might not be processed by the miners until they reach a certain age. The priority of a transaction is based on its inputs' age, values, and the overall transaction size as sum(age*value)/size, at least in the default client. Once that reaches a certain threshold of block age from the inputs, it will be allowed by the default mining code to be processed as a free transaction, as long as there aren't many higher priority transactions ahead of it.


Outstanding reply, and thanks for the clarification and intelligent help.
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June 19, 2011, 09:21:21 PM
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You're taking it personally against other people because you can't understand the concept behind a 0.65% fee? Dumb.

Eh, it can be as high as 5% or more.

OP, I just figured out how to get around this on my thread: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19066.0
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