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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Making fee estimation better
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> Worth thinking about the whole ecosystem of wallets involved; they all=0D
> have to handle double-spends gracefully to make tx replacement of any=0D
> kind user friendly. We should try to give people a heads up that this i=
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> coming soon if that's your thinking.=0D
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If there is a situation where wallets are supposed to constantly monitor=0D
the tx propagation and recreate their transactions with different fees,=0D
this would make a lot of usecases inconvenient.=0D
half-offline bluetooth transactions, users with unstable connections,=0D
battery power lost, etc, etc. - and last but not least power concerns on=0D
hardware wallets on the bitcoincard (tx signing drains a significant amou=
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of power and should therefore only be done once)=0D
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-Andreas