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For the 210,000th block some people voluntarily provided high transactions fees to reward the miner of the block: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13xd05/idea_for_the...

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Some people also wanted to make sure that their particular transaction was included in this block for posterity. Paying a fee increases the priority (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vocabulary) of the transaction to make it more likely to be included.

Here is someone who claims to have missed out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128200.msg1363948#ms...

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