Estimate Fee returning -1

Question

I updated the bitcoin node to version to 140200 on top of which one of my applications was running. There wasn't any issue with the flow of the application estimatefee RPC I get -1 for no matter what I give as the number of blocks. Also the alternate fee api estimatesmartfee returns negative values. When I execute the same api on a node with version 140100 it gives me a positive result How do I resolve this ?

Ref: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/83352/bch-estimatefee-return-1 — truongnm, Jan 24 '19 at 07:18

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '17 at 05:36

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-1 means "not enough information for an accurate estimation".

Try with a higher confirmation target.

answered Sep 02 '17 at 05:36

Pieter Wuille

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i tried all numbers till 250 block numbers. Still it did not work. – Shabahat M. Ayubi Sep 02 '17 at 11:59
I also thought it returns -1 when the block target is out of range (limits = 2-20) – Danny Brewster Sep 02 '17 at 08:00
How long has your node been running? – Pieter Wuille Sep 02 '17 at 19:08

Estimate Fee returning -1

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