# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-03-29 16:22:27
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=160692.msg1700155#msg1700155

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Sure. @p{par}

First, you need to make sure miners will accept bitcoins with the lower fee.  So lobby your favorite miner or mining pool to set the -mintxfee=  parameter to something lower than the default 0.0005 BTC-per-kilobyte; you can ask them if they will increase the size of the blocks they're creating and include more free transactions, too (those are settings they control). @p{par}

Then, if you're using Bitcoin-Qt, you can set the transaction fee in the Preferences/Options dialog. @p{par}

Right now, network peers won't relay low-priority transactions that include a fee of less than 0.0001 BTC, so that is as low as you should go. Fixing that is near the top of the (long) TODO list, but I really want to fix it correctly so we developers get out of the business of deciding what the transaction fees should be, and instead let the network decide. @p{par}

If you generate a small number of high-bitcoin-value transactions (e.g. you have more than 1 BTC in your wallet and make a few purchases a week) then you should probably leave the Pay transaction fee setting at zero; Bitcoin-Qt will send your transactions without a fee, which will be just fine. @p{par}

 @p{par}