Transaction fees are added to the block reward.

When bitcoin/other coins mine out, the expectation that miners will continue to mine to get the transaction fee reward.

What is an appropriate amount for a relative fast confirmation?

Transaction fees go the miner that solves the block which contains your transaction. The idea behind transaction fees is to stop people spamming the blockchain with transactions making it grow to an unmanageable size.

Someone sent you 0.529 because an address of yours was listed somewhere. Probably a bot giving tips or perhaps a mining pool payout.

So much for the friendly happy clappy doge community. I'm a dogecoin agitator and I have to answer newb questions.

Hello friendly happy clappy much love dogecoin community. Can such friendly doge person tell me the size of the doge blockchain.

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Bitcoin is ~12GB after 5 years

Doge is ~850MB after 20 days

Such comparisons. Much conclusions.

It was due to a bug. Got sorted out yesterday.