<p>Each ~10 minutes, a "block" containing transaction gets crafted and broadcast. Miners choose which transactions to include in their block -highest fee/Kb transactions, to maximize their earnings- and they collect the transaction fees of the transactions they've chosen when they find and publish a block.</p>

<p>Consider this transaction:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Bj5zY.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Bj5zY.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>You can see the:</p>

<pre><code>Included in Blocks: 499089
</code></pre>

<p>If you browse to that block in the block explorer...</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/huUaf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/huUaf.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>So, the transaction fees of that transaction are collected by the mining pool ViaBTC.</p>

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<p>I'm trying to figure out how the transaction fees are distributed to the miners.<br>
We pay an incredibly high amount of money to send bitcoins, but where does all the money go? Are they shared out equally among all the miners? My first thought was that the node that confirm the transactions is going to get the fees, but it's all a blur.<br>
Thanks a lot!</p>

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How are transaction fees distributed?
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# How are transaction fees distributed?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-13)

I'm trying to figure out how the transaction fees are distributed to the miners.  
We pay an incredibly high amount of money to send bitcoins, but where does all the money go? Are they shared out equally among all the miners? My first thought was that the node that confirm the transactions is going to get the fees, but it's all a blur.  
Thanks a lot!

**Tags:** transactions, mining-reward


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-13. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Each ~10 minutes, a "block" containing transaction gets crafted and broadcast. Miners choose which transactions to include in their block -highest fee/Kb transactions, to maximize their earnings- and they collect the transaction fees of the transactions they've chosen when they find and publish a block.

Consider this transaction:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/Bj5zY.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/Bj5zY.png)

You can see the:

```
Included in Blocks: 499089

```

If you browse to that block in the block explorer...

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/huUaf.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/huUaf.png)

So, the transaction fees of that transaction are collected by the mining pool ViaBTC.


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