Combine fLimitFree and fOverrideMempoolLimit into a single boolean:
bypass_limits. This is used to indicate that mempool limiting based on feerate
should be bypassed. It is used when readding transactions from a reorg and then
the mempool is trimmed to size after all transactions are added and they can be
evaluated in the context of their descendants. No changes to behavior.
Any change output which would be dust at the discard_rate you are
willing to discard completely and add to fee (as well as continuing to
pay the fee that would have been needed for creating the change).
Change parameter for conservative estimates to be an estimate_mode string.
Change to never return a -1 for failure but to instead omit the feerate and
return an error string. Throw JSONRPC error on invalid nblocks parameter.
This redefines dust to be the value of an output such that it would
cost that value in fees to (create and) spend the output at the dust
relay rate. The previous definition was that it would cost 1/3 of the
value. The default dust relay rate is correspondingly increased to
3000 sat/kB so the actual default dust output value of 546 satoshis
for a non-segwit output remains unchanged. This commit is a refactor
only unless a dustrelayfee is passed on the commandline in which case
that number now needs to be increased by a factor of 3 to get the same
behavior. -dustrelayfee is a hidden command line option.
Note: It's not exactly a refactor due to edge case changes in rounding
as evidenced by the required change to the unit test.
This check has been moved to the wallet logic GetMinimumFee. The rpc call to
estimatesmartfee will now no longer return a result maxed with the mempool min
fee, but automated fee calculations from the wallet will produce the same result
as before and coincontrol and sendcoins dialogs in the GUI will correctly
display the right prospective fee.
changes to policy/fees.cpp include a big whitespace indentation change.
Remove helper function (CalculateEstimateType) for determining whether
estimates should be conservative or not, now that this is only called
once from GetMinimumFee and incorporate the logic directly there.
This fixes buggy behavior where we were temporarily setting and unsetting the
global payTxFee when trying to send a transaction with a custom fee from the
GUI. The previous behavior was inconsistent depending on the order of using the
RPC call settxfee and clicking various radio buttons in the sendcoinsdialog.
The new behavior is that transactions sent with the GUI will always use either
the smartfee slider value or the custom fee set on the GUI and they will not
affect the global defaults which are only for RPC and initial GUI values.
Due to the iterative process of selecting new coins in each loop a new fee is
calculated that needs to be met each time. In the typical case if the most
recent iteration of the loop produced a much smaller transaction and we have now
gathered inputs with too many fees, we can just reduce the change. However in
the case where there is no change output, it is possible to end up with a
transaction which drastically overpays fees. This commit addresses that case,
by creating a change output if the overpayment is large enough to support it,
this is accomplished by rerunning the transaction creation loop without
selecting new coins.
Thanks to instagibbs for working on this as well
Add support for setting each of these attributes on a per RPC call basis to sendtoaddress, sendmany, fundrawtransaction (already had RBF), and bumpfee (already had RBF and conf target).
GetMinimumFee now passes the conservative argument into estimateSmartFee.
Call CalculateEstimateType(mode) before calling GetMinimumFee or estimateSmartFee to determine the value of this argument.
CCoinControl can now be used to control this mode.
Checking for the existence in the CCoinsViewCache of the outputs of a new tx
will result in a disk hit for every output since they will not be found. On the
other hand if those outputs exist already, then the inputs must also have been
missing, so we can move this check inside the input existence check so in the
common case of a new tx it doesn't need to run.
The purpose of the check is to avoid spamming the orphanMap with slightly old
txs which we have already seen in a block, but it is already only optimistic
(depending on the outputs not being spent), so make it even more efficient by
only checking the cache and not the entire pcoinsTip.
Since cfe77ef41 the global nTxConfirmTarget wasn't being updated by the smart
fee slider and thus the coin control dialog and labels were not being updated.
Previously it was possible for HaveCoinInCache to return true for a spent
coin. It is more clear to keep the semantics the same. HaveCoinInCache is
used for two reasons:
- tracking coins we may want to uncache, in which case it is unlikely there
would be spent coins we could uncache (not dirty)
- optimistically checking whether we have already included a tx in the
blockchain, in which case a spent coin is not a reliable indicator that we have.
Previously if we didn't have any local addresses, GetLocalAddress would return
0.0.0.0 and then we'd swap in a peer's notion of our address in AdvertiseLocal,
but then nServices would never get set.
For the per confirmation number tracking of data, introduce a scale factor so that in the longer horizones confirmations are bucketed together at a resolution of the scale. (instead of 1008 individual data points for each fee bucket, have 42 data points each covering 24 different confirmation values.. (1-24), (25-48), etc.. )
Store in fee estimate file the block span for which we were tracking estimates, so we know what targets we can successfully evaluate with the data in the file. When restarting use either this historical block span to set valid range of targets until our current span of tracking estimates is just as long.
Track the first time we seen txs in a block that we have been tracking in our mempool. Used to evaluate validity of fee estimates for different targets.
Change the logic of estimateSmartFee to check a 60% threshold at half the target, a 85% threshold at the target and a 95% threshold at double the target. Always check the shortest time horizon possible and ensure that estimates are monotonically decreasing. Add a conservative mode, which makes sure that the 95% threshold is also met at longer time horizons as well.
Track information the ranges of fee rates that were used to calculate the fee estimates (the last range of fee rates in which the data points met the threshold and the first to fail) and provide an RPC call to return this information.
Instead of stopping if it encounters a "sufficient" number of transactions which don't meet the threshold for being confirmed within the target, it keeps looking to add more transactions to see if there is a temporary blip in the data. This allows a smaller number of required data points.
Move buckets and bucketMap to be stored as part of overall serialization of estimator.
Add some placeholder data so file format is only changed once.
Maintain 3 different TxConfirmStats with potential for different decays and scales.
Since we are more accurately measuring pcoinsTip peak usage at twice the current in dynamic usage, it makes sense to double the default (this will lead to the same effective usage and peak usage as previously).
We should also double the buffer used to avoid flushing if above 90% but still sufficient space remaining.
Setting minrelaytxfee to 0 will allow all transactions regardless of fee to enter your mempool until it reaches its size limit. However now that mempool limiting is governed by a separate incrementalrelay fee, it is an unnecessary restriction to prevent a minrelaytxfee of 0.
This a breaking API change to the prioritisetransaction RPC call which previously required exactly three arguments and now requires exactly two (hash and feeDelta). The function prioritiseTransaction is also updated.
"startingpriority" and "currentpriority" are no longer returned in the JSON information about a mempool entry. This affects getmempoolancestors, getmempooldescendants, getmempooolentry, and getrawmempool.
Remove -limitfreerelay and always enforce minRelayTxFee in the mempool (except from disconnected blocks)
Remove -relaypriority, the option was only used for the ability to allow free transactions to be relayed regardless of their priority. Both notions no longer apply.
The result value indicates the actual fee on the transaction that was replaced. But there is an error message which uses the description 'oldfee' to refer to the original fee rate applied to the new transaction's estimated max size. It was confusing that two different uses of 'oldfee' had two different numeric values.
Have wallet's default bump value be higher than the default incrementalRelayFee to future proof against changes to incremental relay fee. Only applies when not setting the fee rate directly.
Use the wallet's fee calculation logic to properly clamp fee against minimums and maximums when calculating the fee for a bumpfee transaction. Unless totalFee is explictly given, in which case, manually check against min, but do nothing to adjust given fee.
In all cases do a final check against maxTxFee (after adding any incremental amount).
Analogue to ConnectTrace that tracks transactions that have been removed from the mempool due to conflicts and then passes them through SyncTransaction at the end of its scope.
Alex Morcos