Quote from: DannyHamilton on April 06, 2013, 04:50:14 PM

Quote from: lucb1e on April 06, 2013, 03:49:48 PM

You earn $3500 for a single block, why do we need to charge fees now?

If there are 4,000 unconfirmed transactions, and you can fit 800 transactions in the block you are working on, which 800 do you choose? Only seems fair to give priority to those who voluntarily paid a transaction fee. The rest can wait.

You can fit only 800 transactions in one block? Is this because of the 0.7 bug (with the too big block that caused two chains)?

Quote from: Welsh on April 06, 2013, 08:41:01 PM

A fee is not required. However if you ran a business and some people donated and some didn't. Who would you help first? Maybe you would help the person who went first, but bitcoin has many transactions a day. Putting a small fee increases the time sent.

I thought you could just process all unconfirmed transactions at once; put them all in one block.