What is this weird fee?

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What is this weird fee?
I noticed a field labelled simply "fee" when performing a recent update of my witness. It does not seem to be related to the account creation fee, and I'm not aware of any witnesses using a non-zero value. Is there anybody out there that can offer some insight?

Here is where I first noticed it...

<center>http://i.imgsafe.org/fdf1939675.png</center>

And then later I realized that steemd.com is showing it as well...

<center>http://i.imgsafe.org/fdf1a6e277.png</center>

One suggestion from @riverhead in #witness on steemit.chat was that it might be an artifact of sorts from BitShares, since their transactions typically involve fees.

It might be a coincidence, but I only noticed this after upgrading to the latest version of Steem in anticipation of Tuesday's hard fork. So I'm thinking that it also might be part of preparation for a new feature that is in the works.

What do you think?
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