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Considering that the coinbase transaction adds to blocksize, and thus has a marginal cost on the network, might it make sense to allow arbitrary splits but enforce the same byte-based enforced fee as other transactions?

EDIT: Of course, allowing zero sized outputs makes no sense whatsoever and needs some type of sanity check.

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The problem with enforcing a fee for large coinbase transactions is that the fee is paid to the person creating the coinbase - ie. themself. In other words there's no way of charging a fee for coinbase creation. Although I guess you could charge a fee for spending coinbases.

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Well, the thought was that in the near future fees might be incremented onto a fee pool, and then a portion of those fees awarded. That would eliminate the problem with any change in fee structure which would allow for stakers to avoid the fees via staking their own transactions.

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It would also provide stability to the subsidy.

Unfortunately (fortunately?), a portion still needs to go directly to the block staker - to prevent the loss of incentive to include transactions in the first place. Otherwise, stakers would stake empty blocks for the propagation advantage, much the same as BTC is experiencing.

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