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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Normal big-enough transaction with 0 fee is not confirmed for hours
by
deepceleron
on 03/04/2013, 17:56:00 UTC
A transaction sending 0.4 BTC with 100 confirmations is not high enough priority to send with no fee.

priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age)/size_in_bytes

((0.4 * 100,000,000) * 100) / 258 = 15,503,875

Transactions need to have a priority above 57,600,000 to avoid the enforced limit. I would recommend ANY payment include a fee even if it would qualify to be free, as "free transaction" space in blocks is limited, and profit-motivated miners have no incentive to include free transactions over those with fees.