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Rewrite/reorganize Transaction Cost article #1123

Open mDuo13 opened 2 years ago

mDuo13 commented 2 years ago

The Transaction Cost article is a bit confusing and hard to follow. Partly this is because the way the transaction cost works is confusing but partly it's because the article was only updated piecemeal after the introduction of FeeEscalation and the transaction queue.

Reorganize the article to make it clear:

mDuo13 commented 2 years ago

Style note: we prefer the term "transaction cost" rather than "transaction fee" because people tend to assume that a "fee" is paid to a specific party (such as Ripple), which is not how the transaction cost works. (The transaction cost XRP is destroyed.) The word "cost" conveys this nuance a little better, but the API, source code, and some developers still use the older term "fee" in many cases.