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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..)

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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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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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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только если у него нет солнецной панели))) а так да!))) все верно

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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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