There are about 500 transactions per block; each block contains 25BTC + fees (the fees are negligible at the moment). At the current price of $350/BTC that means that the revenue per transaction is 25*350/500 = $17, which means that the cost per transaction should be around that area. This means that the low transaction fee is actually massively subsidized by the fixed block reward.
Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/*
by lotsofmangos on Sunday November 02, 2014 @03:31AM
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Yeah, just thinking about that fee graph. I have no idea of the transaction size it is based on and without that it is pretty useless.
Haha, I have no idea what that chart is talking about. It might be in cents. Even then, it seems expensive.
My phone client uses a ~$0.05 fee, I think.
All fees are optional. Your transaction might just take longer without one.