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Vile Vixen and Miss Bitcointalk 2021-2023
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June 14, 2013, 10:48:22 AM |
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Transactions sending coins which were only very recently received are considered "low-priority", to prevent spammers from bloating the blockchain by sending coins back and forth to themselves repeatedly. Low-priority transactions always require a fee (this is explained on the wiki). The basic requirement for a typical (not too complex) transaction to be considered "high-priority" is "1 bitcoin-day", ie, if you're sending 1 bitcoin, you have to have to received that bitcoin more than 1 day ago. Since you're only sending 0.01 bitcoins, you will need to wait at least 100 days before you can send it without fees. If you can't wait that long, you'll just have to buy some more.
Note that transaction fees are a normal part of Bitcoin, and eventually Bitcoin will be entirely supported by fees, at which point free transactions will probably no longer be allowed at all. If you have been told that transaction fees are not normally required or expected with Bitcoin, you have been lied to.
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