From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach.org>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Total fees have almost crossed the block reward
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:15:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTkfNcJuFPPwppwOt9mvWp4nX3FyhJBmZyTbg=3ZsNDBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9EB76B68-E8AC-4BE8-8279-BA18033CBF9F@friedenbach.org>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Every transaction is replace-by-fee capable already. Opt-in replace by fee
> as specified in BIP 125 is a fiction that held sway only while the income
> from fees or fee replacement was so much smaller than subsidy.
The distinction is does a next fee replacement hit the next block 99%
of the time or does it do so with 10% probability each successive
block that the original remains unconfirmed; eventually converging to
the same 99% but only after a non-trivial additional delay. As a
result it's still useful to flip it on.
I believe electrum has been defaulting to opt-in without any big problems.
There was discussion in the bitcoin core weekly irc meeting today
about defaulting it on. Some expressed the view that perhaps it
should be left off by default for the RPC because some industrial
users but I'm of the view that those users are both most likely to
want it on and also the most able to see it in the release notes and
change their settings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-22 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 21:30 [bitcoin-dev] Total fees have almost crossed the block reward Melvin Carvalho
2017-12-21 22:02 ` Jameson Lopp
2017-12-21 22:18 ` Jim Rogers
2017-12-21 23:15 ` Michel 'ic' Luczak
2017-12-21 22:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-12-21 23:35 ` Paul Iverson
2017-12-22 0:30 ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-12-22 1:15 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2018-02-12 17:23 ` Melvin Carvalho
2018-02-12 17:47 ` rhavar
2018-02-12 18:12 ` Peter Todd
2018-02-12 19:41 ` Christian Decker
2018-02-13 19:03 ` Peter Todd
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