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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
Dabs
on 17/11/2017, 00:38:13 UTC
If the transaction is valid, every node will broadcast it. The miners may not include it in a block, if there are transactions in the queue with a non-zero fee, especially while the mempool is over capacity for the next block. As soon as there is free space in the next block, zero fee transaction will get through - of course, the chance to empty the mempool below capacity is in question these days :-)

You must be an old-timer. That's the old code. The new code most nodes are running requires a 1 sat/byte fee for them to broadcast the transaction.

Oh, i must check that. Sounds reasonable; also need to upgrade my node it seems.
Thanks  Smiley

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.15.0.1/src/policy/policy.cpp#L18-L50

You're all old-timers. There's a minimum relay fee, which, if included, will get relayed by almost all nodes. It used to be 0.0001 (or ten thousand sats). If the fee is any lower, it doesn't get relayed. Confirmation is another matter.