In options you can set fee to 0.00

Can send w/o paying a fee for anything +>1.00BTC but if its less, ie 0.02 I get charged the fee.

Which really doesn't seem right at all...

I agree.

If bitcoin is to be usable as an every currency, you have to be able to give small amount without high charge cost.

With the ever increasing value of the coin, you are gonna see small transaction more and more

0,01 BTC is worth about 20-25 cents.  which is huge is you are buying something like a pack of gum. What's the point of getting rid of governement intervention in the money if it's shakel ourself with a "transaction tax".

Maybe a flat 1% fee would be better.

I'm not sure how this system works. Sending something bigger than 0.01 (for example 0.10) it asks for a 0.01 fee (why?). And if I want to send 1 BTC it asks for a 0.04 fee, 2 BTC asks for a 0.05 fee. I've disabled it in options, so it's kind of weird in my opinion... Especially because the fee just will be added on top of the 50 BTC that is earned by finding a block.

Well, the BTC I have are definitely matured, so its not that.

I've read the wiki carefully.  In practice I can send 1.00 BTC or greater with no fee.

Less than 1.00 and I get charged a fee.  

I've been cashing out my mining earnings a lot, and all are kind of below 0.10. Do you recommend to cashout bigger amounts to prevent the fees? (For example 0.50?).

Also, what is called 'mature'. When it has 1000 verifications? Or 500? Etc.

Thanks for clearing something up though.

As someone mentioned, back when the transaction fee was imposed, 0.01 BTC was a mere fraction of a penny in USD.  You'll have to wait for the next version of the client to come out to send the new 0.0005 free, and I suspect the big pooled miners might also have to switch to the new bitcoind.exe daemon.  The transaction fee issue is one of the growing pains of Bitcoin, so we just have to be patient.

Allocator, the transaction is instantly *broadcasted* and thus we can see it on http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/ right now if we want to.  As it ages, it'll get higher priority, and someone is likely to accept it soon.  For comparison, debit/credit transactions can take several days to confirm, even though the merchant treats it as if it was already confirmed so you can go about your way with your purchase.

Glad that this is in effect, actually.

One thing's for sure.  I am not going to begin offering anything for bitcoin until the fees are fixed.  It would discredit me because the way it is set up right now is so unprofessional.  I have written before about fees and I'll recap real quick:

* The previous system was awesome, where users could optionally add a fee, and there was a notice about how if you don't pay the fee, you'll have low priority.

* Fees do not prevent an attacker from spamming.  A determined attacker will simply use a different client.  By putting this ineffective measure in the official client, we only punish legitimate users.

* Fees of any size are extremely chilling to micro-transactions.  This defeats one of the huge selling points of bitcoin.  Changing from .01 to .005 or .0001 is just a bandaid fix and doesn't truly address this issue.

* Fees act as an unfair tax on people who use the default client.  We are essentially punishing people for using the frontpage client from bitcoin.org!

* Fees prevent people from "test driving" bitcoins when they first get them.  Many users' very first experience with a real live bitcoin is a scary popup message with a draconian fee rule.

I strongly urge the developers to release an emergency update to the client to remove fees and return to the old optional fee input box.