Questions tagged [fee-estimation]

Questions about deriving the right amount of fees to add to your transaction.

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Why does estimatesmartfee not return < 5 sats/vB even for long confirmation times?

We find that estimatesmartfee will not return results lower than 5 sats/vB, even though many transactions are completing at much lower fee rates. Looking at the implementation of estimatesmartfee, it bounds the result to the higher of three…
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Estimate Fee returning -1

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…
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