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Re: Can I avoid the 0.0005BTC fee?
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EnergyVampire
on 28/06/2012, 17:07:58 UTC
I have a Bitcoin-qt wallet running in OSX Lion with only 1 address in it: 1Jaa7hidZ2PnmXhwfTyE3pKdjKT6WkQz4

This wallet/address received 1.0301101 BTC a bit more than 15 hours ago.

http://blockchain.info/address/1Jaa7hidZ2PnmXhwfTyE3pKdjKT6WkQz4

If I try to send the full balance to a friend of mine, my client indicates that a 0.0005 BTC fee is required.

If I wait for the coin to age, can I avoid the fee?  If so, approximately how old does the coin need to be to avoid the fee?  Will 24 hours be old enough?  3 days?  A week?

-  Danny

Hello DannyHamilton,

"A transaction can be sent without fees if both of these conditions are met:

    It is smaller than 10 (SI) kilobytes (10.000 bytes).
    All outputs are 0.01 BTC or larger. "

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Fee