From: "Russell O'Connor" <roconnor@blockstream•io>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting BIP 125 RBF policy.
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:19:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZUoKnFBVFhaq61wKu_CcZgRKc5aoeTa-wq9h2CXH0WWHd3NQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180212225828.GB8551@fedora-23-dvm>
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
>
> I don't actually see where the problem is here. First of all, suppose we
> have a
> transaction T_a that already pays Alice with a feerate sufficiently high
> that
> we expect it to get mined in the near future. If we want to pay Bob, we
> can do
> that by simply creating a double-spend of T_a that pays both Bob and Alice,
> T_{ab}. BIP125 only requires that double-spend to have an absolute fee
> higher
> than the minimum relay feerate * size of the transaction.
>
The problem is that rule 3 of BIP 125 requires you pay a fee that is higher
than the the fee of T_a *plus* the fee of the sweep-transaction that the
Alice has added as a unconfirmed child transaction to T_a because
double-spending to pay Alice and Bob invalidates Alice's
sweep-transaction. Alice's sweep-transaction is very large, and hence pays
a large absolute fee even though her fee-rate is very low. We do not have
any control over its value, hence Alice has "pinned" our RBF transaction.
> 3'. The replacement transaction pays a fee rate of at least the effective
> > fee rate of any chain of transactions from the set of original
> transactions
> > that begins with the root of the original transaction set.
>
> I think what you mean here should be the effective fee rate of the maximum
> feerate package that can be built from the set of transactions that begins
> with
> the candidate replacement. But actually calculating this is I believe
> non-trivial, which is why I didn't implement it this way when RBF was first
> implemented.
>
Yes, that is what I mean. My proposal was off-the-mark.
Surely CPFP is already computing the package-fee rates of mempool
transactions. That is the value we need to compute.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 15:52 Russell O'Connor
2018-02-12 17:30 ` rhavar
2018-02-12 22:58 ` Peter Todd
2018-02-12 23:19 ` Russell O'Connor [this message]
2018-02-12 23:42 ` Peter Todd
2018-02-12 23:46 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-02-14 14:08 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-02-14 14:16 ` Greg Sanders
2018-02-27 16:25 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-03-01 15:11 ` Peter Todd
2018-03-08 15:39 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-03-08 18:34 ` Peter Todd
2018-03-08 20:07 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-03-09 18:28 ` Peter Todd
2018-03-09 18:40 ` rhavar
2018-02-12 23:23 ` rhavar
2018-02-13 18:40 ` Peter Todd
2018-02-14 2:07 ` rhavar
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