Who exactly recieves transaction fees?

[NotATether]

Say I'm running a full node, and it's validating transactions that will subsequently be included in the next block. About those fees in the transactions, is there a system of dividing the fees among the full nodes? Or does it just go to the full node which validates it first?

[ChuckBuck]

Miners will be the ones who receive the cost of a transaction, which is the most basic knowledge for bitcoin users 
You can get detailed answers here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9895/who-gets-bitcoin-transaction-fees

[NotATether]

Miners will be the ones who receive the cost of a transaction, which is the most basic knowledge for bitcoin users 
You can get detailed answers here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9895/who-gets-bitcoin-transaction-fees

So according the link you posted, it's only the miner who mined the block containing the transaction who receives its fees. For some reason I thought full nodes that only do validation could also receive fees.

[bob123]

The miner who included your transaction into a valid block receives the fee.

A full node is validating blocks to have a correct copy of the blockchain stored locally.
It does not receive any fee at all.

You may have mistaken it with a node in the lightning network ?
People are able to route money through your channels and you can demand a fee for that.

[Csmiami]

So according the link you posted, it's only the miner who mined the block containing the transaction who receives its fees. For some reason I thought full nodes that only do validation could also receive fees.

Lightining Network nodes do receive the tx fees if a tx is routed through them. "Normal" bitcoin nodes don't receive anything for being a node; but they help the network by routing the txs and have some "voting power", deciding which client to run (the latest, or if they don't agree with something, not the latest). I don't really know how that last part works, because it's not something I've seen discussed many times

[gentlemand]

For some reason I thought full nodes that only do validation could also receive fees.

In theory every user should be running their own full node for the benefit of their own security by validating their own transactions. There was never any financial incentive, that security should have been incentive enough. As we can tell it hasn't exactly panned out that way so far...

[nc50lc]

-snip- For some reason I thought full nodes that only do validation could also receive fees.

That's a feature of POS coins (Proof of Stake), full nodes will be rewarded for validation and the reward will be based from the amount of coins they're hodling (rough description).
Perhaps you've read some online articles about it or a hybrid POW/POS coin.

Bitcoin in the other hand is a POW coin (Proof of Work), miners/mining pools do the "work" and the lucky one gets the reward and fees.

[OgNasty]

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