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Fees paid by the sender to the miner as payment for confirmation of the transaction on the Monero network,

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I am allowing partial refunds on my monero-integrated store, how do I prevent the fee being deducted from the balance that is left over?

I want the fee to be deducted from the refunded amount. For example, Given a fee of 1 XMR If I refund 100 xmr from a 200xmr account, I would like the refunded amount to be 99 XMR (100-1) and the ...
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PHP RPC: how do I get the "min_fee" value so I do not exceed balance + min_fee when sending a transaction?

I keep getting an error when I want to send my entire balance (not using sweep_all but transfer_split). It says that the "needed_money + min_fee > balance_subtotal". So, I need to at ...
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Does Monero have a maximum fee for transactions?

Bitcoin recently had a transaction paying almost 20 BTC which is roughly three times the base reward and most probably happened due to some mistake. Monero has a min-fee based on the base reward and ...
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Set a fixed fee at transaction creation in the wallet RPC

I started using the Monero RPC to create transactions. For the moment I use the transfer function from the wallet RPC to send Monero to another wallet. But I'm wondering if there is any way to create ...
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Use range proofs to make fees proportional to amounts in transactions

For what I could understand, reading a bit about the use of Bulletproof in Monero, it is used to prove that the amounts in the transaction are between 0 and 2^N-1, where N is the number of bits, ...
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Is Monero an inflationary asset?

My prejudice is that because monero has utility on the dark-web for transactions it's not suitable as a store of value. That's my pre-conceived perception, at least. In trying to understand the ...
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What is the least expensive way to buy Monero with fiat?

I'm looking to buy monero using the Dollar Cost Averaging strategy where purchases are made for for relatively small amounts of fiat on a periodic schedule. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the p2p approach ...
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In the future if we needed to send a micronero or piconero, wouldn't fees cost more than that value?

How can someone send a micronero or piconero in the future if a micronero = $1. And fees per transaction is more than this. What are some solutions to this problem?
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Transaction weight/size understanding

According to Monero source code there are two metrics for the transaction size: Size https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/v0.17.2.0/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp#L870 Weight https://github.com/...
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Block reward and transaction fees over time

I am trying to understand how block rewards have evolved over time in Monero. I downloaded the blockchain and plotted the reward field from each block. Because it looked a bit strange, I plotted the ...
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When Monero is worth $10,000 will fees in xmr be the same or lower/higher?

Currently (FEB-2021) a monero transaction fee is about .000015 XMR ($0.003 USD). When XMR reaches a higher price will these fees stay the same in XMR terms? If so won't that cause for concern like how ...
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How do I get the weight of a transaction from the RPC daemon

I'm trying to look at the distribution of fees per kb of weight, but all I can find in the RPC connection to the daemon is the fees of a transaction. Note that I want the weight of a transaction, not ...
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How to get a block reward from a block template?

I make a get_block_template request to a monerod using a RPC interface. From response of this request I can get the a value of expected_reward: expected_reward = block_reward + tx_fees_amount But ...
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How can i get current fee from monero-wallet-rpc

I wanna make transactions during monero-wallet-rpc. When I wanna send some amount I wanna know the fee's before Im transfering the funds to other wallet. How can i get the fee's regarding a ...
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What is the fee cost of a Loki blink instant transaction and does this fee get burned?

Loki just released instant transactions for a cryptonote coin. What is the transaction fee and does this fee get burned when making a loki blink transaction?
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Historical significance of FEE_PER_KB_OLD

I discovered this term FEE_PER_KB_OLD in the code base, but it seems unused. What is the historical context around it? Was it ever used? I know in v3 of protocol the FEE_PER_KB was used, then in v4 it ...
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How to compute block weight?

To compute fees we need the median block weight for 100 blocks (AFAIK). I was wondering how exactly is the block weight computed? Is it just the sum of weights of all of its transactions? Or are other ...
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What are the standard fee multiplier levels?

In the GUI wallet the fees are written as Slow: x0.25 Normal: x1 Fast: x5 Fastest: x41.5 But I just made two transactions with slow and normal fee respectively and the slow fee was 1/5 of the ...
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Updated dynamic fee calculation?

I'm hoping to find a current reference that explains how the dynamic block size/fee calculation works? This link has a nice explanation, but a community member on reddit suggested it was out-of-date (...
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How are fees computed?

Can someone explain the algorithm to compute Monero transaction fee? I have seen somewhere it is based transaction size (or something called "weight"?), and some other vague explanation. But I would ...
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If the Monero started with rCT, would it be needed to have any part of the codebase handling dust?

I mean there is so much code in Monero handling situation that involve any dust. Is it just for backward compatibility or would it be needed even if the Monero started with rCT? I know about 2 types ...
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Monero fees are .0000456 after bulletproofs. Will it get smaller as more transactions go into a block?

Previously before bulletproofs. Fees were .002 on the low setting. Now they are .0000456 xmr. Will fees be even lower as more transactions go into a block? And if there are less transactions, fees ...
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What is the transaction fee?

What is the transaction fee for one transaction? What is the dollar equivalent for a transaction? Does the amount of XMR sent affect the fee?
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Why are Monero fees visible?

I was checking in moneroblocks.info some random transaction just to see how they are composed, and I noticed that while the amounts are confidential, the fees are on clear and not obfuscated. Isn't ...
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What effect has the increase of minimal ring size from 5 to 7?

How will the scheduled increase of ring size in the current hard fork v7 affect security/privacy, transaction size/fees and verification time? Is there a reason why exactly 7 and not 10 or maybe 20?
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Is the high transaction fees problem addressed in the upcoming monero v7 upgrade?

I've read the official release notes for Lithium Luna but there is no mention of any solution for the problem. At the same time I saw on twitter/forums some devs comment that it is addressed. Does ...
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Transaction fee using RPC for non ringct transactions

How to get the fee of a transaction using the daemon RPC for non ring-ct transactions ? For RingCT transactions, I can get the fee using the method /gettransactions and the field txnFee in the ...
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How necessary are transaction fees?

How necessary are transaction fees? Why isn’t the block reward enough to maintain a community of miners?
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sending XMR with MyMonero, to low fee, long time stuck

A month ago I sent XMR using MyMonero to recipient (MM was my first wallet and default to making transaction). Unfortunately I used a too low of a fee. My transaction at this moment is still frozen :(....
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Does the Monero default client deduct the fee from the sent amount?

Will the transaction fee be automatically added when I transfer some moneros with the default wallet (client) i.e.: 2 XMR to be transferred + 0.01 fees (depending on speed and obfuscation level) 2....
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Who pays Transaction fee?

If I want to send someone $20 worth of monero and the transaction fee is $10, does that person only get $10 or the full $20 and I pay the $10, so I would end up paying $30 for a $20 transaction? ...
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Can Monero miners be picky about adding transactions to blocks

With Bitcoin, miners are picky about which transactions to add to blocks due to the limited block size, opting for transactions with higher fees (larger transactions). This means micro/nano payments ...
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Transfer using cli and choosing lowest fee?

How do you write the command to set the lowest fee during a transfer with the monero cli?
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Monero cli transfer command set lower transaction fee

Using the monero cli with the transfer command. transfer 48aBif46.....Ab1d .001 How can you set a custom transaction fee? What if I made the transaction fee .000001 or even zero?
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Selfish Mine paper mistaken?

Reading the paper on so-called 'Selfish Mining' http://fc14.ifca.ai/papers/fc14_submission_82.pdf On page 12 Figure 2 relative pool revenue equals 1 at 50% of hash power 'selfishly' mining. The ...
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Priority among transactions with same fees

If there are too many transactions in the mempool to be included in a single block, and assuming they all have the same transaction fee per kB, will the older transactions be mined first?
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Network fees and light-wallet options

I am new to Monero but not crypto in general. A couple of questions - When I sent my XMR from the exchange to my wallet I was surprised at the high mining fee (0.05 XMR!) Is this normal? I run a full ...
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What plans are there to lower the monero fees to under 10 cents?

As monero increases in price, what are the plans to lower the fees? Paying a few dollars per transaction is a bit much. anything less than 10 cents would be ideal. What are the proposed plans to do ...
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What is the lowest fee one can pay to make a monero transaction?

Is it possible to make a transaction without paying a fee or what is the lowest fee amount one can send with? How long does it take to get your coins back if the network does not accept your ...
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What is the command in monero cli to send some coins to an address or multiple addresses at once? [duplicate]

What is the cli command to send some coins to 1 address and the command to send to multiple addresses by paying a fee once?
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Who gets monero transaction fees?

I am running a monero node and I would like to know where do the Monero transaction fees go ? Do I need to set something into the monerod node setup to receive transaction fees ?
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How to calculate exact Monero transaction fee?

I assume that transaction fee is deducted from the transaction amount, i.e. if Alice sends Bob 10 XMR, then Bob will receive (10 - tx_fee) ~ 9.x XMR I don't know how precise https://www.monero.how/...
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How does the dynamic blocksize and the dynamic fees work together in Monero?

This mechanism is unique to Monero because it's the only cryptocurrency to have both blocksize and transaction fee dictated by an algorithm, how was this achieved and what is the rationale behind such ...
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What does the "default" priority (priority = 0) do in monero-wallet-cli?

Here's a paste selection from the set command in monero-wallet-cli. priority [0|1|2|3|4] - default/unimportant/normal/elevated/priority fee With priority set to 0, what does that actually mean in ...
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Are 0-output transactions possible?

Is it possible (as in allowed by consensus, not doable with today's software) to create a zero-output transaction in Monero? In other words, is it possible to create a transaction whose inputs are ...
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Why does monero have higher transaction fees than bitcoin?

median and highest fees source: monero.how
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Is it possible to set the priority / fee multiplier below 1?

I just read an article on Coindesk about gas price explosion of ETH due to its price spike in recent months. There is an example of a "smart contract" of a simple user registration, which was around $...
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How do I set transaction priority with the JSON RPC wallet?

I'm trying to find how to set the payment priority when making a transfer using the JSON RPC wallet, but can't find the parameter in the documentation, probably because it hasn't been updated since ...
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What's the explanation for certain high fee transactions/blocks?

From my understanding transaction fees are calculated automatically based on the transaction size in bytes, the current average block size, etc. I've noticed recently that transactions have been ...
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How do I send XMR to multiple different addresses?

For example let's say Alice wants to send moneroj to Bob, Chris and Dave. Does she have to make 3 separate transactions or can she do just one? If she can do just one transaction, would the ...
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