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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Transaction fee clarifications needed
by
Stephen Gornick
on 23/07/2011, 08:24:39 UTC
you are setting zero fees to the client but it sends a fee without telling you.

I don't know of any versions that did that.

The most recent version (v0.3.24) will pop up a dialog box that says the transaction fee is required and will display the amount.

its not only the fact that there is no FAQ

Added.
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#How_much_will_the_transaction_fee_be.3F

Please know that the client cannot say something like: the fee for getting this transaction processed in the next block is N bitcoins.

That is because there is no set fee.  When the client comes up with a number, it is only making an estimate.  It is up to the miner to determine whether or not to include a transaction.  The higher the fee, the more likely the transaction will get included.  Even a high fee though is not a guarantee.

Currently, the 50 BTC reward is adequate for many miners so that is why you will see transactions with no fee in many of the blocks yet.