Smarter fees for Bitcoin Core V 0.1
Instead of being paying the same miner fee every time, the new Bitcoin wallet promises smart fees by examining how long transactions take to confirm, even sending them for free if it belives it will transact and confirm freely. Below is a graph of how it works, taken from the Bitcoin Foundation’sblog post regarding this. The new feature is described as a target. Set it to one, and the fee is adjusted to where the transaction will most likely be included in the next block to confirm. Set it to 6, and it’ll be included in the next 6 blocks. According to the post, the red-yellow-green lines....
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