This post: https://www.stellar.org/blog/our-proposal-to-disable-inflation says:
You’ll still be able to set the inflation destination on your account, for instance, but no inflation will go out. Fees will still go to the fee pool, they’ll just be locked there, inaccessible and unused.
Also, recent ledgers on the public network say:
Fee Pool: 1,810,125.7140461 XLM
Also, most operations are showing "0" in the fee field.
So my questions are:
- Where is that 1.8 million XLM? Is it just taken out of circulation?
- Is it now standard practice that things submitted to stellar have 0 XLM in fees?
- Without fee income, what's the incentive to running a full validator (e.g. from the
stellar/quickstart
docker image, if I'm understanding what that is)?
I apologize if this is already hashed out somewhere else. I'll accept RTFM + link as an answer