Is there any incentive at all to pay transaction fees if the block size is less than its maximum size? If the block is less than the maximum size, won't all transactions be included in the block regardless of fees paid?
Some miners are not putting transactions in if there is no fee. I presume this is to incentivise fees.
Evidence?
I see plenty of blocks with zero fees.
Oh, I didn't mean most, just that there must be some. I've had transactions not get in the next block. And when that happens it usually takes a few blocks to get. Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I'm wrong. The delayed transactions may only have happened when I sent ~10 and usually all but one would get in which means there aren't miners who only take fees. Maybe miners that usually take zero fee, but delay with some probability? Seems unlikely. I also thought I'd seen others having the same issue, but I didn't look carefully.
This was over a month ago, but I assumed it still happened and I just wasn't seeing it because I'm sending less often now.
I'm probably totally wrong.