estimatesmartfee returns error on testnet and mainnet #19150

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   dragoonduel commented at 5:21 am on June 3, 2020: none

   Issue unable to obtain any fee using estimatesmartfee on main net and test net below response was using bitcoin-cli estimatesmartfee 6 { “errors”: [ “Insufficient data or no feerate found” ], “blocks”: 0 } Using bitcoin core version 0.19.1 downloaded from https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/

   System is running on AWS EC2 and using EFS

   my AWS Linux ec2 is hosted in the private subnet to allow only outgoing transactions to pull in nodes information. it does not allow any incoming connections from external. does it required an incoming connections in order to build up the mempool as well as the fee_estimate?

   getmempoolinfo return this { “loaded”: true, “size”: 0, “bytes”: 0, “usage”: 0, “maxmempool”: 300000000, “mempoolminfee”: 0.00001000, “minrelaytxfee”: 0.00001000 }

   file size of mempool.dat and fee_estimates.dat is below -rw——- 1 17 Jun 3 02:54 mempool.dat -rw——- 1 247985 Jun 3 02:54 fee_estimates.dat

   referring to issue #15568 i tried to delete the same files and the blocks and chainstate folder to resync, but it is still not returning the fees.

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   jonasschnelli commented at 6:29 am on June 3, 2020: contributor

   Have you successfully synced (initial block download) you node? What does getblockchaininfo tell you?
3. jonasschnelli added the label TX fees and policy on Jun 3, 2020
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   dragoonduel commented at 7:25 am on June 3, 2020: none

   Hi yes, my node height is the same as current testnet height see below on getblockchaininfo { “chain”: “test”, “blocks”: 1747489, “headers”: 1747489, “bestblockhash”: “000000000000059078a5934fd8282244cd0061fb3b4c3e86f8e311e8ce982351”, “difficulty”: 2245782.832211968, “mediantime”: 1591162574, “verificationprogress”: 0.9999979350152886, “initialblockdownload”: false, “chainwork”: “00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000015ba25328a7f2054319”, “size_on_disk”: 27385046763, “pruned”: false, “softforks”: { “bip34”: { “type”: “buried”, “active”: true, “height”: 21111 }, “bip66”: { “type”: “buried”, “active”: true, “height”: 330776 }, “bip65”: { “type”: “buried”, “active”: true, “height”: 581885 }, “csv”: { “type”: “buried”, “active”: true, “height”: 770112 }, “segwit”: { “type”: “buried”, “active”: true, “height”: 834624 } }, “warnings”: “Warning: unknown new rules activated (versionbit 28)” }
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   MarcoFalke commented at 9:55 am on June 3, 2020: member

   hosted in the private subnet to allow only outgoing transactions

   It is only possible to estimate fees when you have enough mempool transactions from the outside p2p network

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