Quote from: amaclin on October 28, 2016, 05:05:44 AM

Quote from: AgentofCoin on October 28, 2016, 12:35:32 AM

Ok. I'm pretty surprised that a miner would mine that type of tx today.

Why not?
Miners are interested in fees
If there are no high-fee txs - they do confirm txs with low fee even these txs are 1 year old and created by spamer
...

Looking at mempool graphs for October 25, 2016, seems to have a steady 6k to 9k txs pending
throughout the day. So it is interesting a miner would take on that cost instead of taking a higher fee.

The prior block was: over 600kb, 1,284 txs, 0.2849 btc fee So avg 45 satos per byte
The block in question was: over 900kb, 794 txs, 0.1955 btc fee So avg 20 satos per byte
The block after was: over 900kb, 2,245 txs, 0.7235 btc fee So avg 72 satos per byte

So when you look at the 3 block side by side, the one we are talking about took on more data for less fee,
the other two seem somewhat in proportion and makes some sense to me.

In addition, here is another crazy tx this one miner took:
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/tx/c1696113e3cd152dee1e9b4b42057995ba253d082b4228f9d5d3623ade179dff
This has no fee and over 33,000 bytes.
Edit: seems this tx is the miner pool paying its miners and mined their own tx.