Transaction

j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMe<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48.msg318#msg318">Quote from: theymos on February 12, 2010, 08:31:52 AM</a></div><div class="quote">Does the sending client send more BitCoins to account for the fee (so the recipient gets what he's expecting)?<br/></div>Yes.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48.msg319#msg319">Quote from: SmokeTooMuch on February 12, 2010, 01:11:09 PM</a></div><div class="quote">why do we even need fees ? i thougt the no-fees-feature was one of the advantages of bitcoin ?!<br/></div>Almost all transactions are free.&nbsp; A transaction is over the maximum size limit if it has to add up more than 500 of the largest payments you've received to make up the amount.&nbsp; A transaction over the size limit can still be sent if a small fee is added.<br/><br/>The average transaction, and anything up to 500 times bigger than average, is free.<br/><br/>It's only when you're sending a really huge transaction that the transaction fee ever comes into play, and even then it only works out to something like 0.002% of the amount.&nbsp; It's not money sucked out of the system, it just goes to other nodes.&nbsp; If you're sad about paying the fee, you could always turn the tables and run a node yourself and maybe someday rake in a 0.44 fee yourself.</div> text/html