Questions about deriving the right amount of fees to add to your transaction.
Questions tagged [fee-estimation]
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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…

Shabahat M. Ayubi
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