Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-23 📝 Original message:On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2018-01-23
📝 Original message:On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Rhavar via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Interesting. I didn't think about this before, but it seems like bip125 is
> rather incentive incompatible right now? If we're assuming a competitive
> mempool, it really doesn't seem generally rational to accept a replacement
> transaction of a lower fee rate.
BIP125 replacement requires that the fee rate increases. The text of
the BIP document is written in a confusing way that doesn't make this
clear.
📝 Original message:On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Rhavar via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Interesting. I didn't think about this before, but it seems like bip125 is
> rather incentive incompatible right now? If we're assuming a competitive
> mempool, it really doesn't seem generally rational to accept a replacement
> transaction of a lower fee rate.
BIP125 replacement requires that the fee rate increases. The text of
the BIP document is written in a confusing way that doesn't make this
clear.