Add sane fallback for fee estimation

- Always respect GetRequiredFee for wallet txs
- Add sane fallback for fee estimation
- SQUASHME: Fix rpc tests that assumed fallback to minRelayTxFee

Add new commandline option "-fallbackfee" to use when fee estimation does not have sufficient data.

Github-Pull: #7296
Rebased-From: 995b9f3 e420a1b bebe58b
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Alex Morcos
2016-01-05 13:10:19 -05:00
committed by Wladimir J. van der Laan
parent 8f25d6eb0e
commit a36d79bfe2
6 changed files with 40 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
strUsage += HelpMessageGroup(_("Wallet options:"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-disablewallet", _("Do not load the wallet and disable wallet RPC calls"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-keypool=<n>", strprintf(_("Set key pool size to <n> (default: %u)"), DEFAULT_KEYPOOL_SIZE));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-fallbackfee=<amt>", strprintf(_("A fee rate (in %s/kB) that will be used when fee estimation has insufficient data (default: %s)"),
CURRENCY_UNIT, FormatMoney(DEFAULT_FALLBACK_FEE)));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-mintxfee=<amt>", strprintf(_("Fees (in %s/kB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: %s)"),
CURRENCY_UNIT, FormatMoney(DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE)));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-paytxfee=<amt>", strprintf(_("Fee (in %s/kB) to add to transactions you send (default: %s)"),
@@ -949,6 +951,15 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
else
return InitError(strprintf(_("Invalid amount for -mintxfee=<amount>: '%s'"), mapArgs["-mintxfee"]));
}
if (mapArgs.count("-fallbackfee"))
{
CAmount nFeePerK = 0;
if (!ParseMoney(mapArgs["-fallbackfee"], nFeePerK))
return InitError(strprintf(_("Invalid amount for -fallbackfee=<amount>: '%s'"), mapArgs["-fallbackfee"]));
if (nFeePerK > nHighTransactionFeeWarning)
InitWarning(_("-fallbackfee is set very high! This is the transaction fee you may pay when fee estimates are not available."));
CWallet::fallbackFee = CFeeRate(nFeePerK);
}
if (mapArgs.count("-paytxfee"))
{
CAmount nFeePerK = 0;