First-seen-safe Replace-by-Fee is now available as a patch against v0.10.2: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/first-seen-safe-rbf-v0.10.2 I've also had a pull-req against git HEAD open for a few weeks now: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6176#issuecomment-104877829 I've got some hashing power interested in running this patch in the near future, so I'm offering a bounty of up to 1 BTC to anyone who can find a way to attack miners running this patch. Specifically, I'm concerned about things that would lead to significant losses for those miners. A total crash would be considered very serious - 1 BTC - while excess bandwidth usage would be considered minor - more like 0.1 BTC. (remember that this would have to be bandwidth significantly in excess of existing attacks) For reference, here's an example of a crash exploit found by Suhas Daftuar: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6176#issuecomment-104877829 If two people report the same or overlapping issues, first person will get priority. Adding a new test that demos your exploit to the unit tests will be looked upon favorably. That said, in general I'm not going to make any hard promises with regards to payouts and will be using my best judgement. I've got a bit over 2BTC budgetted for this, which is coming out of my own pockets - I'm not rich! All applicants are however welcome to troll me on reddit if you think I'm being unfair. Suhas: speaking of, feel free to email me a Bitcoin address! :) -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000000006dd456cf5ff8bbb56cf88e9314711d55b75c8d23cccddd5