On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Adam Back <a...@cypherspace.org> wrote: > When you said destroy-via-miner-fee: > > >> Don't forget: 4. destroy-via-miner-fee, which is useful because it >> provides funding for a public service (bitcoin transaction >> verification). > > > Is that directly possible? Because the reward transaction has no source, > and no fee? Or can you put a 25BTC fee in the reward transaction in the > coinbase?
When a transaction's input value exceeds its output value, the remainder is the transaction fee. The miner's reward for processing transactions is the 25 BTC initial currency distribution + the sum of all per-transaction fees. A destroy-by-miner fee transaction is a normal bitcoin transaction sent by any user, that might look like Input 1: 1.0 BTC Output 1: 0.5 BTC (the miner fee is implicitly 0.5 BTC, paid to whomever mines the transaction into a block) Sadly the bitcoin protocol prevents zero-output, give-it-all-to-the-miner transactions. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgar...@exmulti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
