Quote from: ThomasV on May 01, 2013, 08:23:53 AM

Quote from: dano777 on May 01, 2013, 06:32:01 AM

Well it's been about two weeks or so since I've received these very special tiny coins...

Still, when I want to transfer them from Electrum, it forces me to use a transaction fee.

How old do these coins have to be before I can set a zero transaction fee ?

Thanks

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see the technical info : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
if your transaction does not have a priority higher than the threshold described there, it will not be propagated by the Bitcoin network.

the Electrum client prevents you from sending a transaction that would otherwise not be propagated by the Bitcoin network.
when this protection was not there, the transaction was visible only at one server, misleading users.

Does it mean that transactions below the priority cannot be propagated at all or that these transactions cannot be propagated without a fee? Electrum error message requires a higher fee but my understanding was that the user determines the fee and that it can differ from the suggested fee. If this truly is the case, then how does Electrum determine the appropriate fee, why does it not show it and why is it not just a suggestion?