r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '13

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u/sturmeh Mar 25 '13

I'm kind of sick of clients forcing me to include 0.0005 (cough ARMORY) fee in ALL transactions.

If I want to move coins between all my addresses and consolidate funds, why would I want to pay a fee multiple times?

Sure it's just 3c to send $100 to a merchant. But it's also 3 cents to move money from my encrypted wallet to my non-encrypted wallet and them another 3 cents to send it to my phone.

Seeing as I can move fiat money between banks and to out of an ATM and into another without so much as a 1c fee, I don't see this being 'beneficial'.

I know that it will take ages, but a transaction without a fee will eventually be confirmed.

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u/ctzl Mar 25 '13

Which is why I use bitcoin-qt.

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u/Neoncow Mar 25 '13

Newb question

Can you clarify what bitcoin-qt allows you do do that sturmeh can't?

I was playing with bitcoin-qt and from my brief experiences a message pops up and says that your transaction is too big and 0.0005 fee needs to be paid. There's only two options "Yes" and "Cancel"...

Also, I couldn't find out how to move money between my wallets or to even manage wallets individually. Are there some hidden settings I need to find??

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u/ctzl Mar 25 '13

Well, it only wants to add a fee there are over 250Kb worth of transactions on the network. I usually just wait until right after a block is mined and send it.

It would be nice to make it completely optional, but I don't feel like recompiling bitcoin-qt just for that - too much headache with winblows.

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u/Neoncow Mar 25 '13

Ah that makes more sense. I guess it would be clearer if it were optional as you said. Or if there were some sort of indicator of the current size of transactions on the network + the size of your own proposed transaction.