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December 04, 2013, 06:57:35 AM

Is the issue that the bitcoin-qt clients simply do not propagate anything below the "minimum" fee, so the miners don't even get to decide whether to include them in blocks? If there are any threads about this I'd be curious to read them.

I've made several zero fee transactions. Am I missing something?

Yeah, that's because your tx met 3 conditions:

1) smaller than 10,000 bytes
2) All outputs were 0.01 BTC or larger
3) Its priority was large enough (priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age)/size_in_bytes)

This is basically because you have old coins.

If my transaction were to not meet all these conditions, and I made the transfer without a fee, would it ever get processed?