Default minimum transaction relay feerates

Default minimum transaction relay feerates are the policy implemented by nodes for ignoring individual unconfirmed transactions whose feerate is below a certain amount. For Bitcoin Core, this threshold has for several years been 1 sat/vbyte.

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Optech newsletter and website mentions

2022

• Discussion about lowering the default minimum transaction relay feerate

2019

• Bitcoin Core #16507 fixes a rounding issue related to the minimum relay feerate

2018

• Bitcoin Core #13987 adds info about peers’ minimum feerates to getpeerinfo
• Discussion about lowering the default minimum relay feerate
• Accidentially creating transaction below the default min relay feerate

See also

• Package relay

• Ephemeral anchors

  
  

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