Better text for sending transaction option “Request Replace-By-Fee” #11344

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   ghost commented at 5:59 pm on September 15, 2017: none

   Howto replace a stuck transaction with another with higher fee ?

   bitcoind 0.15.0

   The marking option “Request Replace-By-Fee” in the sending transaction GUI page should have a better understandable text.

   The sender does not “request” anything when creating the transaction. This is just a tag for a later possibility, as I understand as a rather normal user.

   I would suggest something like

   “Let me increase the fee of this transaction later, if it should not get confirmed in expected time (‘Replace-By-Fee’ feature)”

2. fanquake added the label GUI on Sep 16, 2017
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   ghost commented at 6:02 pm on September 16, 2017: none

   I have just read https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-3-50c42125625e about “Replace By Fee (RBF)” and I am unsure, if one needs to tag the initial transaction as “Request Replace-By-Fee” or if one should do that only for the second transaction (which has a higher fee) to replace the first one. This is really unclear to me.
4. 
   sipa commented at 6:42 pm on September 16, 2017: member

   @wodry The replace by fee policy is described in BIP125. It’s the initial transaction that needs be marked as replacable.
5. 
   ghost commented at 6:48 pm on September 16, 2017: none

   @sipa Sure, one could also look into the source code to figure it out. This is intended as a feedback on GUI usability :-)
6. 
   flack commented at 10:14 pm on September 16, 2017: contributor

   How about something like “Allow increasing transaction fee later on”?
7. MarcoFalke added the label Easy to implement on Sep 18, 2017
8. 
   ghost commented at 6:39 pm on October 1, 2017: none

   Issue is solved with PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11428
9. unknown closed this on Oct 1, 2017

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10. 
    meshcollider commented at 7:05 pm on October 1, 2017: contributor

    Please don’t close the issue until the corresponding PR is merged, that will be done automatically when the PR gets merged.
11. unknown reopened this on Oct 2, 2017

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12. jonasschnelli closed this on Dec 5, 2017

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13. jonasschnelli referenced this in commit 91eeaa0335 on Dec 5, 2017
14. MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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