11 sats \ 2 replies \ @jp 3 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Any good RBF debate explainers out there? bitcoin
Is there any risk of spamming the mempool by continuously updating the transaction fee?
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lumor 3 Dec 2022
Nodes should only be propagating txs increasing the fee, but yeah, the possibility of spamming the network through increasing the fee by 1 sat steps seems to be worse.. But users can already do it with RBF transactions. Only ancient pre-RBF nodes would not propagate the tx.
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 4 Dec 2022
Nodes do not propagate RBF replacements unless they pay a minimum threshold of additional funds per byte. The cost is high enough that it'd be a lot cheaper to just buy cloud servers and DoS attack the entire P2P network directly.
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