Testnet fees?

[alphonse23]

Does testnet carry fees like mainnet?

Yesterday, I made these transactions getting my testnet coins from this faucet: http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/.

Here are the three transactions. One to one address, and then back, using 0.3 BTC:

from: http://tbtc.blockr.io/address/info/mrdhFKiP5qRBbFDeaSC1VGub9wsVn9PVqM to: http://tbtc.blockr.io/address/info/mgpuSZ3feUdWjDdCuPJueWcYQks9CCM1PB

But as you can see from the transaction, no fee was required. Does this mean testnet does not use fees? How do you test the fee system? And if it's true that testnet does not use fees, why doesn't it say so on the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet?

[amaclin]

Does testnet carry fees like mainnet?

No.

why doesn't it say so on the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet?

Feel free to improve wiki page

[alphonse23]

Good to know. I wasn't sure if my transaction worked or not.

[oldbute]

Isn't it the miners that decide whether a 0 fee transaction is included?  Would it be safe to say the miners on testnet don't care about fees rather than the testnet nodes themselves?

[shorena]

Isn't it the miners that decide whether a 0 fee transaction is included?  Would it be safe to say the miners on testnet don't care about fees rather than the testnet nodes themselves?

Uh Miners? You make it sound like there are testnet pools and such. If you are lucky and catch the right moment you can solomine a block with your cpu. So while I theory you are right, it makes little sense to charge a fee for the testnet.

[R2D221]

Uh Miners? You make it sound like there are testnet pools and such. If you are lucky and catch the right moment you can solomine a block with your cpu. So while I theory you are right, it makes little sense to charge a fee for the testnet.

I thought that Testnet was created to test Bitcoin features without risking any money. If fees are part of Bitcoin, shouldn't they be a part of Testnet too?

[DeathAndTaxes]

Uh Miners? You make it sound like there are testnet pools and such. If you are lucky and catch the right moment you can solomine a block with your cpu. So while I theory you are right, it makes little sense to charge a fee for the testnet.

I thought that Testnet was created to test Bitcoin features without risking any money. If fees are part of Bitcoin, shouldn't they be a part of Testnet too?

There are no fees mandated by the protocol only by clients and the rules imposed by a client depend on the client version.  testnet nodes tend to not be updated as quickly.  Still using testnet in a box you could construct a multi-node test environment to test the processing of min fee to relay rules.