On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:18:30PM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> The other complication is that this will tend to be a lagging indicator
> based on network congestion from the last time you connected. If we assume
> that transactions are being dropped in an unpredictable way when blocks are
> full, knowing the network congestion *right now* is critical, and even then
> you just have to hope that someone who wants that space more than you do
> doesn't show up after you disconnect.

Hence the need for ways to increase fees on transactions after initial
broadcast like replace-by-fee and child-pays-for-parent.

Re: "dropped in an unpredictable way" - transactions would be dropped
lowest fee/KB first, a completely predictable way.

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