Agree with roslinpl as it's faster and the fee is so small that making it 0 and at the same time making the transactions long lasting is worthless
sure it is like this.
0.0001 is very cheap. and we need to remember that those money are needed to support miners.
I know many people who add higher fee to their transactions.
Just find any cheaper way to send money on planet earth?
(and I am not talking about other cryptocurrencies)https://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees
https://blockchain.info/
https://blockchain.info/block-index/471229/0000000000000000d162a9c8fcd62c5c90517ca177f44752d9fc74b49912e1b1
Block Subsidy: 25 btc
Transaction fees: .17 btc
.17/25.17 = .68% of miner's revenue is from transaction fees
https://blockchain.info/block-index/471233/0000000000000000b2d9570fa137befb3d6bafbeef7b5e47171f0fc553d8c8d5
Block Subsidy: 25 btc
Transaction fees: 0.07 btc
.07/25.07 = .28% of a miner's revenue is from transaction fees
https://blockchain.info/stats
% earned from transaction fees: 0.32%
transaction fees are too small for anyone to pay attention to
besides
the developers are reducing the transaction fee
I don't know why they don't simply increase precision