How are Ripple transaction fees "destroyed?"

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What is the exact process by which the transaction fees are "destroyed?" Are they sent to a special account, or simply erased from the ledger?

Manish

Posted 2013-04-26T04:35:36.463

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The sender's account is debited the transaction fee, but no other account is credited the same amount.

Alex Kravets

Posted 2013-04-26T04:35:36.463

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2In addition, the total_coins field in the ledger header is decremented.David Schwartz 2013-04-27T08:30:22.483