fee-estimation.md

Initial Fee Estimator Design

• Gist
• Chaincode Fee Estimation Video

Reworking of Fee Estimator (Using Buckets)

• Mailing List Post
• GitHub Pull Request

Stop Creating 0 Fee Rate Transactions

• GitHub Pull Request

John Newberry on Bitcoin Core Fee Estimation

• An Intro to Bitcoin Core Fee Estimation
• What's New in Bitcoin Core v0.15 Pt.2

High-Level Design of the Updated Fee Estimator

• Gist
• Better Fee Estimates

Current PR's on Fee Estimation

• Fee Estimation: change estimatesmartfee default mode to economical

• Fee Estimation: Ignore all transactions that are CPFP'd

  • Connected to: Detect and Ignore Transactions That Were CPFP'd in the Fee Estimator
  • Connected to: Package-Aware Fee Estimation

• Fee Estimation via Fee rate Forecasters

Interesting Closed PR's

Concept ACK but Approach NACK

• Switch to Weight Units for All Feerates Computation
• Attempted Mempool-Based Fee Estimation
• Add fee_est Tool for Debugging Fee Estimation Code

No Concept ACK

• Policy, Refactor: CFeeRate::FromSatB/FromBtcKb Named Constructors

Weak Concept ACK

• Allow Fee Estimation to Work with Lower Fees
  • Connected to: Lower Default Relay Fees

Issues on Fee stimation

• Improving fee estimation accurracy

• Bitcoin is returning higher fees for 36 block window than 2 block window (on testnet)