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Statistics used to estimate fees and priorities are saved in the
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data directory in the 'fee_estimates.dat' file just before
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program shutdown, and are read in at startup.
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- Double-Spend Relay and Alerts
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- =============================
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- VERY IMPORTANT: * It has never been safe, and remains unsafe, to rely*
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- * on unconfirmed transactions.*
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-
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- Relay
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- -----
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- When an attempt is seen on the network to spend the same unspent funds
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- more than once, it is no longer ignored. Instead, it is broadcast, to
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- serve as an alert. This broadcast is subject to protections against
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- denial-of-service attacks.
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-
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- Wallets and other bitcoin services should alert their users to
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- double-spends that affect them. Merchants and other users may have
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- enough time to withhold goods or services when payment becomes
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- uncertain, until confirmation.
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- Bitcoin Core Wallet Alerts
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- --------------------------
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- The Bitcoin Core wallet now makes respend attempts visible in several
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- ways.
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- If you are online, and a respend affecting one of your wallet
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- transactions is seen, a notification is immediately issued to the
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- command registered with ` -respendnotify=<cmd> ` . Additionally, if
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- using the GUI:
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- - An alert box is immediately displayed.
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- - The affected wallet transaction is highlighted in red until it is
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- confirmed (and it may never be confirmed).
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- A ` respendsobserved ` array is added to ` gettransaction ` , ` listtransactions ` ,
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- and ` listsinceblock ` RPC results.
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- Warning
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- -------
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- * If you rely on an unconfirmed transaction, these change do VERY*
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- * LITTLE to protect you from a malicious double-spend, because:*
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- - You may learn about the respend too late to avoid doing whatever
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- you were being paid for
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- - Using other relay rules, a double-spender can craft his crime to
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- resist broadcast
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- - Miners can choose which conflicting spend to confirm, and some
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- miners may not confirmg the first acceptable spend they see
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