An Appeal for Zero-Conf
The recent addition of Peter Todd’s “Replace by Fee” (aka RBF) to Bitcoin Core ignited a discussion over the past several days, related both to RBF specifically and to “zero-confirmation transactions” more broadly (zero-confirmation, aka zero-conf, refers to accepting Bitcoin transactions before they are confirmed in a block). This post isn’t intended to....
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