[bitcoind] Transaction fees: One annoying shit i have stumbled upon - page 2.

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Quote from: kjj on September 22, 2011, 08:20:42 AM

The fee is miniscule. Just eat it and call it a cost of doing business.

kjj probably runs a mining pool which collects those fees and doesn't distribute them to the actual miners. So your cost will be his gain.

Isn't the bitcoin ecosystem wonderfully egalitarian that way?

kjj

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The fee is miniscule. Just eat it and call it a cost of doing business.

Pieter Wuille

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There used to be a patch or pull request that added the ability to create a transaction for preview, i.e. not transmitting it yet to the network. This transaction could then be inspected, and afterwards either confirmed or aborted.

I very much liked that idea as a solution to the unknown-fees problem, but I can't find it anymore.

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Quote from: ShadowOfHarbringer on September 22, 2011, 07:40:15 AM

Should there be a method in the API like "checksendtransactionfees

" ?

Wouldn't work. The knapsack problem solver user to select coins is stochastic (uses rand()), therefore the coins selected from the wallet are really random for each call.

You can probably propose a change where a rand() is replaced with some pseudo-random algorithm that seeds of some explicit value and therefore is 100% reproducible.

Satoshi bitcoin client is a dream thing to pull the accounting fraud.

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Hello,

While developing a bitcoin-related app, i have stumbled upon some seriously annoying shit.

The problem is that apparently, using the default client's bitcoind, there is currently no way to determine what the transaction fee is going to be, before sending money ! (So i could, for example, tell the user how much will he be paying BEFORE he sends the money).

Should there be a method in the API like "checksendtransactionfees

" ?

Can somebody correct me please if am I wrong here?

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