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I don't see any 0 sat/vb fee transactions in mempool
27 sats \ 5 comments \ @Wumbo 15 Dec 2022 bitcoin
This is possibly a dumb question but I have notice many mempool tools don't seem to show any 0 sat/vb transactions anymore. I think I remember many tools in the past have a 0 - 1 sat/vb bucket.
Block 767538 and the surrounding blocks don't' seem to have any transactions below 1 sat/vb.
So dumb question is: Is this just random there where not 0 sat/vb transactions in the past few blocks and none in the mempool (we are in a low fee environment)? Or has something change where transactions with less than 1 sat/vb are no longer used?
Historically I feel there would usually be some 0 transactions out there for various reason. (cleaning up UTXO, moving to cold storage, etc..)
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 15 Dec 2022
AFAIK you need to pay at least 1 sat/vb to be relayed and get mined by normal mempool policy. There's nothing in consensus code afaik preventing either mempools and miners from facilitating 0 sat/vb transactions - however it is a DOS vector.
More here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/112531/how-to-find-nodes-forwarding-transactions-with-less-than-minrelaytxfee
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 15 Dec 2022
Bitcoin Core has a default of having minimum of 1 sat/vbyte to relay a transaction. So technically txs with lower fee rates could be mined but they are hard to get to miners because of the min relay settings.
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @NorthKoreanHostage 15 Dec 2022
Miners don't have to accept 0 sat fees.
Miners are running a business. They don't work for free.
When miners used their old laptops to mine Bitcoin instead of Asics like today, they did it for the belief in Bitcoin and would do 0 sat confirmations.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 15 Dec 2022
только если у него нет солнецной панели))) а так да!))) все верно
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 15 Dec 2022
Можно! но тебе самому придется майнить свою транзакцию... 0 это просто так... вот и запусти асик просто так... это возможно??? нет... значит пусть это будет 1 сат...
Не жадничай... все нормально! не помогаешь другим банкам... ты просто в биткоин сфера... кто возьмет твою комиссию не известно! но это точно не будет банк)
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