Questions tagged [replace-by-fee]
describes a mechanism to mark transactions as replaceable until they are confirmed.
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How to test RBF on Testnet?
I'd like to do RBF testing on testnet. I'd like to simulate a transaction with too-low fees, aka "stuck" transaction, and then RBF it in various ways.
Problem is, all testnet transactions ...
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Not sure where some of my transaction went
I just made a transaction of 61.80 Euros, but it charged me 88.01, And I'm not sure why.
Some background: I'm using a service called HodlHodl to turn my mined bitcoin into money. I use Electrum as my ...
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Can Bitcoin transactions actually be reversed/“undone” by the sender by using/abusing the newish “replace-by-fee” feature?
I am watching a live stream of Roger Ver talking about Bitcoin. Yes, I know that a lot of people violently hate him and I will say that I don't like Bitcoin Cash. I sold all mine for Bitcoin very ...
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Where can I get a list of stale RBF'd transactions?
I would like to prove that a certain transaction was in the mempool on a certain date before it got replaced via RBF with another transaction. Is there any service that provides this data?
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My Bitcoin transaction remained unconfirmed for 20 days now [duplicate]
I sent a bitcoin transaction from one of my wallets into another wallet meant for trading. Its been 20 days now and the transaction remained unconfirmed. Please I need help because I sent this coin ...
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Replace by Fee- Unconfirmed Transaction
Would anyone here please be able to tell me how to do RBF using the ledger nano- I can see the transaction was RBF and has been stuck for about 24 hours now. The TX is ...
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Replace-by-fee and re-sending to another address
In Bitcoin Core (or Electrum)
When sending a transaction with "Enable Replace-by-fee" checked, is it possible to resend the transaction (before it was mined) with a higher fee AND to another ...
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Can a 0 confirmation Bitcoin Core change output be spent?
I have a Bitcoin Core wallet which has a utxo which I spent from, in a transaction where around 1% was sent to an external wallet address, with the ~99% change output remaining in the wallet, sent to ...
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Regarding Stuck Bitcoin [duplicate]
I made a mistake in Set my Fee to low and it has been stuck for 9 days. What can I do someone please help?
I just need some help regarding this matter. I'm a first time user and I just want to make ...
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What RBF policy will be default on SegWit v1 nodes?
What RBF node policy will be applied by default in order for a SegWit v1 transaction to relay when encountered. Full RBF, or Opt-in RBF?
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On my first shopping via bitcoin I get “The fee for this transaction seems unusually high. (20%)” What to do about it?
I have some bitcoins in a local Electrum wallet and wanted to do my first shopping with bitcoin from a shop offering payment via bitpay for an item costing (in USD) 20 dollar.
So I went through the ...
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How many wallets allow the user to change outputs for RBF transaction?
I have not tried this option but read about it on twitter: https://twitter.com/bluewalletio/status/1304358287123648513
Not sure maybe this is the code that creates a transaction with different outputs ...
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Why are the fee value and modified fee value always the same?
I do not see any transaction in the mempool having differing values for the fee and modified fee fields. Does nobody modify or accelerate their transactions?
How do transactions with modified fees ...
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Who bears the transaction fee for settling HTLC in Lightning Network?
Given a channel that exist between Alice and Bob, where Alice wants to transfer 0.0001 BTC to Bob. Alice makes HTLC payment to Bob contingent to the secret for the payment hash within a timelock of ...
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Replace-by-fee Problem
Good Day. Please i have an Account with BlockChain but i notice my account has a withdrawal of all my BTC which was not done by me. It has Replace-By-Fee
What might have happened?
How can i get my ...
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Can inputs to a transaction have different values for sequence?
I noticed that the sequence field is used to signal opt-in RBF. I would think that signaling RBF applies to the full transaction rather than particular inputs.
If my transaction has two inputs, and I ...
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Monitoring BIP125 transactions in the mempool
Let's say I have a transaction with txid=A which has bip125-replaceable=True. If I bump the fee the original transaction will be removed from the mempool and replaced by the new one, so how do I know ...
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Checking if transaction is RBF
A transaction can be RBF if itself is a RBF, or it spends outputs from a RBF transaction.
Is there a way to use bitcoin RPC node to check if a transaction is spending outputs from a RBF transcation?
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Is there a way to allow use of unconfirmed RBF outputs in transaction building?
Bitcoin Core seems to not consider unconfirmed outputs that are marked replaceable in input selection. Is there a way to override this protection and allow use anyway? The transaction is created using ...
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getbalance says 0 for incoming TX even though 0-conf is allowed
> $bitcoin_rpc.getnewaddress("myaddress", "bech32")
=> "bc1q9kvfyjxtk9tvkzgpkf4x8zs42sddwlyanz3z6z"
> $bitcoin_rpc.getbalance
=> 0.0
> $bitcoin_rpc.getbalance("*", 0)
=> 0.0
&...
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Why doesn't RBF include restrictions on the outputs?
Why didn't the RBF specification include additional constraints on the replacing transaction, such as that it would need to contain the same outputs (with at least the original output amounts) as the ...
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Is “inherited” replace-by-fee signaling implemented as described in BIP125?
From Bip125:
Explicit signaling: A transaction is considered to have opted in to
allowing replacement of itself if any of its inputs have an nSequence
number less than (0xffffffff - 1).
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Why mark a transaction as RBF (Replace-by-Fee) explicitly?
I could broadcast a second transaction that has the same inputs but a higher fee, without marking the original transaction as replaceable. Miners would most likely favor the second transaction and ...
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Can RBF be done by a third (or second) party
I've been thinking about the following usecase:
could a retailer/merchant offer clients a "no bitcoin fees" option when paying with bitcoin? i.e. if something costs 1 BTC on the site, the user will ...
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Using bitcoind RPC to identify an incoming transaction that has been replaced using BIP125 Replace-By-Fee
In the context of running a web service that accepts payments in Bitcoin, how can we use bitcoind to identify a transaction that has been replaced using BIP125 Replace-By-Fee?
When RBF is used, a new ...
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What is a fee market? Does it mean that blocks should be full, esp. after several halvenings?
As we all know, Bitcoin had experienced an unprecedented long-lasting congestion period in 2017. This seems quite horrible to some people generally, but it seems that such phenomenon was on the ...
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What incentive do miners have to respect the Replace-By-Fee flag?
Couldn't a miner treat all transactions in their mempool as if they had Replace-By-Fee enabled? After all they could always claim that they hadn't seen the original transaction.
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What will be the fee in $ for a 500$ transaction? [closed]
What will be the fee in $ for a 500$ transaction ?
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Why some transactions disappear from the mempool?
Just before block 537562, I had the following transactions in my mempool:
'a4ca904361952c8a27bcf1fd36e5bc8ccdc5d42ceb72cfba60c017fb9cbbb0e5'
'...
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How single usage of bitcoin address is resistant to quantum computing _and_ replace-by-fee?
It is often said that if a bitcoin user uses addresses only once, then quantum computer cannot compromise their security since the public key is revealed only when the money are actually spent.
But ...
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How does one create another transaction when all funds are tied up in an unconfirmed previous transaction?
If I have only one UTXO and I spend from it that's fine, I send myself back the change and that works how I expect it to. However if I want to create a new transaction in the time that the first ...
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Wasn't 0-conf more secure than Visa, before blocks got full and RBF was added?
RBF and full blocks make 0-conf useless, because it's easy to override. Wasn't it once useful? I've heard without those it's more secure than Visa in terms of double spending.
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Are there RPC calls for correct RBF calculations in Bitcoin Core?
Imagine I have a "stuck" transaction using Bitcoin Core (with correct BIP125 signalling), and I want to "unstuck" it using RBF.
Is there some RPC call for the correct fee calculation?
Meaning, is ...
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Do miners prefer RBF transactions over non-RBF transactions?
Given a replace-by-fee (RBF) transaction and a non-RBF transaction with equal fees, do miners prefer the RBF transaction over the non-RBF one? Or is this entirely up to the particular miner?
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Can I save stuck bitcoins by creating a completely new transaction? [duplicate]
I tried to make a bitcoin payment but accidently set a too low transaction fee so it got stuck. By now the payment is cancelled so I don't want to do this transaction anymore.
Can I now instruct my ...
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When closing the channel for LN - how to calculate the fee for the blockchain transaction?
To be clear: Following is not about fees in Lightning Network. Following is about fees on blockchain for transaction which closes the channel in LN.
Channel closing transaction can be created months ...
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Increase a transaction fee in bitcoin core
I marked my transaction with "Request replace-By-Fee"* in my bitcoin core wallet, and now while I can increase the transaction fee, I can only increase it by a tiny bit, and I can't set it to what I ...
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When a transaction will reject if the fee was to low? [duplicate]
I would like to know when a transaction will reject if the fee was to low to be confimed.
If this transaction never will be rejected, what is to do to delete this transaction?
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Increase transaction fee with Bitcoin Core client fails because of no change output. Why?
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I created a transaction (using the full balance of an output) with the Bitcoin Core Wallet (running as full node). The transaction got into the mempool of major nodes, as expected. I set the ...
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why is this transaction I made being rejected?
I created an RBF transaction and bumped the fee, it was broadcast, no I am trying to bump the fee again a 2nd time however I get a "missing inputs error"
Am I doing something wrong?
here is the tx I ...
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Is it possible to get CPFP information from full node, without requesting full mempool dump?
I want to get CPFP information out of full node - that is, ancestorsize and ancestorfees - in order to calculate the necessary fee for either CPFP, or RBF if possible.
Can I get this information ...
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(RBF) double spend transaction not showing up in searches
On my first ever attempt to send my mined bitcoins from my wallet to a bitcoin exchange site I underestimated the transaction fee that would be required to get the transaction processed. So, following ...
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Bumping unconfirmed transaction with sendrawtransaction [duplicate]
I have a transaction which doesn't confirms for last 3 days and is not most likely going to confirm at all in near future due to a recent situation in mempool.
Will it be working if I'll do the ...
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What is the recomended sequence for signalling RBF?
What is the recommended nSequence for signalling RBF transactions?
BIP125 says:
A transaction is considered to have opted in to allowing replacement of itself if any of its inputs have an ...
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Unconfirmed transaction emptied my electrum wallet. How can I unstuck it?
I was using an old Electrum wallet. I sweeped the wallet in a single transaction for which I had not turned on "dynamic wallet" (RBF) yet. The transaction is still unconfirmed after one week. I cannot ...
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Sequence number semantics
Reading the following BIPs: 68, 112, 125, I got a few questions about the sematics of sequence numbers. As far as I understood, in version 1 transactions, sequence numbers have the following meaning:
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How do I do a manual replace-by-fee in Bitcoin Core?
I made a transaction with too small a fee several days ago; hence, it has not been included in any block. Currently, it is lingering in the mempool. How can I use Bitcoin Core to make a new ...
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Why most bitcoin wallet apps don't have Replace-by-fee feature?
As a bitcoin user, it seems that Replace-by-fee feature is useful to solve the problem of transactions not confirming because of an insufficient fee. However, as far as in know, most bitcoin wallet ...
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Replaceable transaction or Non-replaceable. How can I identify it from raw transaction?
I created two transactions on Electrum Mac client. The first tranaction is replaceable and the other is non-Replaceable. The followings are the results of get-rawtransaction of the the two ...
