# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-04-30 23:11:52
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6856.msg101125#msg101125

Uhhh...  maybe a specific example will help.  Lets say you start with accounts/balances of: @p{par}

A: 5 @p{brk}
B: 5 @p{brk}
"": 1 @p{brk}
Total wallet balance: 11 @p{par}

Now you send 5 BTC from A, and pay a 0.01BTC fee.  Account balances will be: @p{par}

A: -0.01 BTC @p{brk}
B: 5 @p{brk}
"": 1 @p{brk}
Total wallet balance: 5.99 @p{par}

The fee isn't 'taken' from either B or "".  You'll have to decide how to handle fees; for ClearCoin, I keep a positive balance in the "" account and automatically move coins from there if a transaction results in a fee (so for the above case, 0.01 bitcoins would be moved from the "" account to A, so A ended up with a zero balance and the fee is paid from ""). @p{par}