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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Bitcoin is "Growing Up" : Feature Request
by
Svick
on 16/07/2010, 07:43:27 UTC
I've seen transaction fees mentioned a few times but I don't see any way in the client to implement them.
Looks like they will be implemented only after emission of 21 million BTCs will be close to an end.
The fees are already implemented, in the case of very large transactions.

It is done so that when you create a transaction, you put more bitcoins in than what goes out. The difference goes to whoever manages to create an accepted block with your transaction. If I wanted, I could modify my client so that your transaction is included in the block I'm generating only if it gives me enough bitcoins as a fee. If enough (generating) clients did this, it would be advantageous for you to add the fee to your transactions, so that they are processed faster.