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Clarify which pieces were to discourage fee sniping attack and which are for privacy.

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edited Sep 2, 2019 at 18:49

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The Locktime (nLockTime)locktime value is deliberately randomized back in orderdeliberately set to discourage a subtle attack known as "Fee sniping" and randomly set to an earlier block height to improve privacy (eg for CoinJoin users that need more setup time).

You can read more about itThis is also here in the PR done in Bitcoin Core with the nLockTime.

The Locktime (nLockTime) value is deliberately randomized back in order to discourage a subtle attack known as "Fee sniping".

You can read more about it here in the PR.

The locktime value is deliberately set to discourage a subtle attack known as "Fee sniping" and randomly set to an earlier block height to improve privacy (eg for CoinJoin users that need more setup time).

This is also done in Bitcoin Core with the nLockTime.

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created Sep 2, 2019 at 16:10

Jonathan Cross

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The Locktime (nLockTime) value is deliberately randomized back in order to discourage a subtle attack known as "Fee sniping".

You can read more about it here in the PR.