j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2162.msg28460#msg28460">Quote from: sturle on December 09, 2010, 08:55:05 AM</a></div><div class="quote">Fees? Come on, miners! How much do you make from fees?<br/></div><br/>Not much, <img alt="Grin" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/grin.gif"/> I've made about 0.5 BTC from fees. It is just too profitable to just mine for the hell of it, I get 50 BTC each time I make a block, and (if I'm very lucky, I make 0.05 BTC from fees).<br/><br/>About the large chain size, this isn't a issue, in the future it will be possible to 'prune' the chain with balances. This will reduced the size by a vast amount. When extra data is included in the chain, it is likely to be forgotten by (most) the network if it stops being important.<br/><br/>For example, the BitDns guys will keep a relocation of a the DNS data for ages, however the banks are likely to just keep the bitcoin currency transfer data and drop the rest.</div> text/html
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