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June 28, 2013, 01:16:35 PM |
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The other day I made a transaction of 0.01 BTC and instead of the default transaction fee 0.0005 BTC I entered 0.0002 BTC. The transaction went fine and I believe it took as long to arrive as with the default transaction fee.
What is the minimum transaction fee I can pay? And what could possibly happen if it is too low?
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@DanielJonss. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Cyberdyne
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June 28, 2013, 01:18:29 PM |
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The minimum fee possible is 0, however it depends on many different factors. I suggest reading this article: http://bitcoinfees.com
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June 28, 2013, 01:18:52 PM |
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The minimum transaction fee is 0BTC. This transaction just takes longer (from a few hours to a few days).
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June 28, 2013, 01:23:28 PM |
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The minimum transaction fee is 0BTC. This transaction just takes longer (from a few hours to a few days).
Is there a risk that it never arrives? Could I respend it if it doesn't arrive?
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@DanielJonss. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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June 28, 2013, 01:30:26 PM |
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The minimum transaction fee is 0BTC. This transaction just takes longer (from a few hours to a few days).
Is there a risk that it never arrives? Could I respend it if it doesn't arrive? No, it just takes some tiem And you can't double spent.
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June 28, 2013, 01:34:15 PM |
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Is there a risk that it never arrives? Could I respend it if it doesn't arrive?
I have to disagree with Cryptocat: Yes, there is a chance that it will be stuck for a very very long time, especially if you are sending a tiny amount of BTC. It is possible to double-spend the Bitcoins and the first one to be accepted in a block will come through. (the same client won't let you make a second transaction, you could import the private key to a second one or use some program to edit a local client)
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June 28, 2013, 01:35:18 PM |
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The minimum transaction fee is 0BTC. This transaction just takes longer (from a few hours to a few days).
Is there a risk that it never arrives? Could I respend it if it doesn't arrive? No, it just takes some tiem Is the transaction time possible to predict based on the transaction fee? And is it possible that a transaction with a fee of 0 BTC gets handled right away if there is a low number of transactions in the network?
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@DanielJonss. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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June 28, 2013, 01:38:15 PM Last edit: June 28, 2013, 01:48:17 PM by Birdy |
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Is the transaction time possible to predict based on the transaction fee? And is it possible that a transaction with a fee of 0 BTC gets handled right away if there is a low number of transactions in the network?
The transaction time is based on the integration of your transaction into a newly mined block. Miners will prefer transaction with a higher fee (+some other factors like coin age, amount of Btcs,datasize), so they will include them first. If there is a low number of transactions your transaction without a fee may be handled right away. Btw: usual transaction fee of the qt-client is now 0.0001 (unless the Btc amount is made up by a lot of tiny transactions. If you collect dust from the free BTC sites and try to send all that the transaction will have a very big datasize) You should be fine by using that fee.
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June 28, 2013, 01:40:04 PM |
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You should listen to Birdy I sometimes sent some BTC from my blockchain wallet without fees. They took some time, but they always arrived.
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June 28, 2013, 05:14:36 PM |
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The fee amount usually varies, but its never very high and usually isnt over 1%
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June 29, 2013, 03:06:39 AM |
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1 satoshi per kb should bé enough to start à little experiment, then up it to 1000 satoshis see what happens.
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June 29, 2013, 05:34:01 AM |
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If i am correct anything under 0.01 is about 0.0005 a fee If you have a lot of small satoshi causing it to have a lot of memory or something you could get a fee of 0.0195 or something (meh o.o)
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June 29, 2013, 08:05:12 AM |
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The fee amount usually varies, but its never very high and usually isnt over 1%
if transaction = 0.01 BTC and fee = 0.0005 BTC, fee = 5%
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June 29, 2013, 02:16:03 PM Last edit: June 29, 2013, 05:05:17 PM by bg002h |
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The default answer is now ฿0.0001/kb for Bitcoin-qt 0.8.2 and up. But, in reality, miners charge whatever they want. If evil mega-Corp buys a ton of ASICs (or miners collude) and controls nearly all the hashing power....they set the true minimum fee.
0.8.2 Release notes ===================
Fee Policy changes ------------------
The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC (for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee (0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are included in a block.
The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the 0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
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June 30, 2013, 10:58:39 AM |
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The minimum transaction fee is 0BTC. This transaction just takes longer (from a few hours to a few days).
Is there a risk that it never arrives? Could I respend it if it doesn't arrive? No, it just takes some tiem And you can't double spent. You can double-spend
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June 30, 2013, 11:01:18 AM |
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You can double-spend
Whilst it is *possible* it is actually in practice rather difficult to do (I tried once after making a huge mistake with fees doing a raw tx). Any node that has seen the first tx will ignore the "double spend" attempt - making it virtually impossible to then do so after only a few seconds across much of the network.
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June 30, 2013, 11:09:56 AM |
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You can double-spend
Whilst it is *possible* it is actually in practice rather difficult to do (I tried once after making a huge mistake with fees doing a raw tx). Any node that has seen the first tx will ignore the "double spend" attempt - making it virtually impossible to then do so after only a few seconds across much of the network. Indeed, you can't do this immediately but the saying "you can't double spent" leads newbies to fear/feeling scammed/posting aggressively in the tech forum. So: Yes we can. But you'll have to use the search function to find the guide and to wait a bit.
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June 30, 2013, 01:15:42 PM |
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Actual recomended fee is 0.0001BTC
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June 30, 2013, 01:19:31 PM |
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Indeed, you can't do this immediately but the saying "you can't double spent" leads newbies to fear/feeling scammed/posting aggressively in the tech forum.
I agree with the sentiment (too much FUD spread around in general) but at the same time it should be understood that the entire *premise* of Bitcoin was to "solve the double spending problem" (so IMO not really a useful thing to tell people that you "can double spend" as it then leads people to infer that Bitcoin is *fundamentally flawed* which is isn't).
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June 30, 2013, 01:49:14 PM |
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Indeed, you can't do this immediately but the saying "you can't double spent" leads newbies to fear/feeling scammed/posting aggressively in the tech forum.
I agree with the sentiment (too much FUD spread around in general) but at the same time it should be understood that the entire *premise* of Bitcoin was to "solve the double spending problem" (so IMO not really a useful thing to tell people that you "can double spend" as it then leads people to infer that Bitcoin is *fundamentally flawed* which is isn't). Indeed, I used the same words than the post I replied to That would be nice to find another word for this For newbies: double-spending means here 'replace an old, stuck transaction which isn't accepted in the blockchain with a new one'
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