Questions tagged [replace-by-fee]

describes a mechanism to mark transactions as replaceable until they are confirmed.

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How is the total number of transactions that will be replaced calculated in this case?

One of the rule for the transaction replacement (RBF) is that the number of original transactions (directly conflicting transactions + their descendants) can't exceed 100. However, in presence of overlapping transactions, "wrong counting" of…
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What happens when two or more transactions are covered ("hit") by RBF?

RBF (Full RBF, Opt-in Full RBF, FSS-RBF) is applied to a transaction when one of its inputs "matches" one of the inputs in the replacement transaction. However, what happens if the inputs of a replacement transaction "hit" the inputs of two (three…
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Why isn't Replace by fee default for all transactions?

I know it's a wallet implementation and a flag, but when it was introduced why wasn't this change a rule for all transactions so that anyone could RBF if they wanted to instead having had to set the mandatory flag?
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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 transaction being replaced? Couldn't this have…
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btc RBF insufficient fee, rejecting replacement

I try to replace this transaction 13bc8f787f7c972702b6d14b8c0b36335aac5d0027800e2de277910a5eff86fb by higher fee, when broadcast return err: broadcast error, -26: insufficient fee, rejecting replacement…
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Are non-RBF transactions more likely to be confirmed sooner?

Are non-RBF transactions more likely to be confirmed sooner? It would seem miners would prefer them (contra this answer) because they don't have to worry about another miner utilizing a higher fee re-send of the TXN.
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