<p>Transactions with a <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/search?q=minrelayfee">fee less than a configured minimum amount</a> are not forwarded by many nodes, such as those based on Bitcoin Core. So such transactions will probably not ever reach a miner unless special arrangements are made directly with a miner.</p>
<p>Occasionally blocks are produced, even now, with no transactions in them other than the coinbase. This can happen, for example, when a miner sees a new block and so restarts mining with an empty template until a parallel process completes assembly of a set of unconfirmed transactions for a new template.</p>
<p>Miners mostly like free money. So they generally are somewhat inclined to also gather fee-paying transactions into their block templates as soon as possible.</p>
<p>They have no incentive to include transactions with zero fees if there are any other transactions they could choose instead.</p>

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<p>If I broadcast a transaction of mine, and decide to not put any transaction fee, is there still an incentive for a miner to include it in to the block?</p>
<p>Maybe related to this, when the block itself awarded a large new amount of bitcoins when created, the so-called <em>coinbase</em>, would users even include a transaction fee for their transactions? And if not, then what incentivises the miners to include <strong>any</strong> transactions? Could they not just produce an empty block and get the coinbase anyway?</p>

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Will a transaction without transaction fee be ignored indefinitively and never put in the blockchain?
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# Will a transaction without transaction fee be ignored indefinitively and never put in the blockchain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-12-11)

If I broadcast a transaction of mine, and decide to not put any transaction fee, is there still an incentive for a miner to include it in to the block?

Maybe related to this, when the block itself awarded a large new amount of bitcoins when created, the so-called *coinbase*, would users even include a transaction fee for their transactions? And if not, then what incentivises the miners to include **any** transactions? Could they not just produce an empty block and get the coinbase anyway?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2024-12-11. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Transactions with a [fee less than a configured minimum amount](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/search?q=minrelayfee) are not forwarded by many nodes, such as those based on Bitcoin Core. So such transactions will probably not ever reach a miner unless special arrangements are made directly with a miner.

Occasionally blocks are produced, even now, with no transactions in them other than the coinbase. This can happen, for example, when a miner sees a new block and so restarts mining with an empty template until a parallel process completes assembly of a set of unconfirmed transactions for a new template.

Miners mostly like free money. So they generally are somewhat inclined to also gather fee-paying transactions into their block templates as soon as possible.

They have no incentive to include transactions with zero fees if there are any other transactions they could choose instead.


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