Issue Details
- Number
- 11800
- Title
- Bitcoin is returning higher fees for 36 block window than 2 block window (on testnet)
- Description
- In testnet, right now, `estimatesmartfee` is returning *higher* estimates for 36 block window than 2 block window. The results:
```
estimatesmartfee 2 ->
{
"feerate": 0.01254483,
"blocks": 2
}
estimatesmartfee 36 ->
{
"feerate": 0.03863968,
"blocks": 36
}
estimaterawfee 2 ->
{
"short": {
"decay": 0.962,
"scale": 1,
"fail": {
"startrange": 490954,
"endrange": 1e+99,
"withintarget": 35,
"totalconfirmed": 35.41,
"inmempool": 165,
"leftmempool": 0
},
"errors": [
"Insufficient data or no feerate found which meets threshold"
]
},
"medium": {
"feerate": 0.01254483,
"decay": 0.9952,
"scale": 2,
"pass": {
"startrange": 626596,
"endrange": 1e+99,
"withintarget": 38,
"totalconfirmed": 38.96,
"inmempool": 1,
"leftmempool": 0
},
"fail": {
"startrange": 596758,
"endrange": 626596,
"withintarget": 15.9,
"totalconfirmed": 50.78,
"inmempool": 14,
"leftmempool": 0
}
},
"long": {
"decay": 0.99931,
"scale": 24,
"fail": {
"startrange": 799713,
"endrange": 1e+99,
"withintarget": 138.78,
"totalconfirmed": 147.56,
"inmempool": 1,
"leftmempool": 0
},
"errors": [
"Insufficient data or no feerate found which meets threshold"
]
}
}
estimaterawfee 36 ->
{
"medium": {
"feerate": 0.01254483,
"decay": 0.9952,
"scale": 2,
"pass": {
"startrange": 690822,
"endrange": 1e+99,
"withintarget": 37.33,
"totalconfirmed": 38.19,
"inmempool": 1,
"leftmempool": 0
},
"fail": {
"startrange": 596758,
"endrange": 690822,
"withintarget": 47.22,
"totalconfirmed": 51.99,
"inmempool": 12,
"leftmempool": 0
}
},
"long": {
"decay": 0.99931,
"scale": 24,
"fail": {
"startrange": 799713,
"endrange": 1e+99,
"withintarget": 139.47,
"totalconfirmed": 147.66,
"inmempool": 1,
"leftmempool": 0
},
"errors": [
"Insufficient data or no feerate found which meets threshold"
]
}
}
```
I am also attaching fee_estimates.dat
[fee_estimates.dat.zip](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/files/1518545/fee_estimates.dat.zip)
Of course testnet is always "weird", but 36 block estimate being higher than 2 block estimate doesn't make sense, even on testnet.
The version of bitcoind is v0.15.0.0
- URL
-
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issue/11800
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