Thanks for clarifying!
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:48 PM, ZmnSCPxj <zmnsc...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Good morning Karl-Johan Alm, > > To clarify: > > Nothing prevents a miner from completely ignoring nSequence when putting > transactions in blocks. > > Unconfirmed transactions are, by definition, not recorded in blocks. So if > there is a transaction 0xFFFFFFF nSequence and fee 1000 satoshi, and another > conflicting transaction 0xFFFFFFF nSequence and fee 100000000 satoshi, miners > can include the latter one even if the first one came to their knowledge > first, regardless nSequence. > > Thus, in the end "full replace-by-fee", where nSequence is IGNORED for > purposes of replace-by-fee, is expected to become the norm, and we should > really be designing our wallets and so on so that we only trust transactions > that have confirmations. > > The "nSequence=0xFFFFFFFF means opt-OUT of RBF" convention is only followed > by fullnodes running standard bitcoind. Nothing prevents miners from running > patched bitcoind that ignores this rule, and connecting with similar peers > who also ignore this rule. > > Regards, > ZmnSCPxj > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On April 11, 2018 5:37 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 05:10:43PM +0900, Karl-Johan Alm wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: >> > >> > > Or via full replace-by-fee, which appears to be used by a significant >> > > minority >> > > >> > > of miners: >> > >> > I was of the impression that final transactions (sequence=0xffffffff) >> > >> > cannot be RBF'd. >> >> My full-replace-by-fee tree ignores that. It also does preferential peering >> to >> >> ensure it's well connected with likewise peers, and thus the whole network. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org >> >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
