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release-notes: Minor corrections and clarifications re Priority

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Relay and Mining: Priority transactions
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Bitcoin Core has a heuristic 'priority' based on coin value and age for
transactions which do not meet pay the minimum relay fee. Bitcoin Core relays
and mines these transactions depending on the setting of `-limitfreerelay=<r>`
(default: `r=15` kB per minute) and `-blockprioritysize=<s>`.
Bitcoin Core has a heuristic 'priority' based on coin value and age. This
calculation is used for relaying of transactions which do not meet pay the
minimum relay fee, and can be used as an alternative way of sorting
transactions for mined blocks. Bitcoin Core will relay transactions with
insufficient fees depending on the setting of `-limitfreerelay=<r>` (default:
`r=15` kB per minute) and `-blockprioritysize=<s>`.
In Bitcoin Core 0.12 when mempool limit has been reached a higher minimum relay
fee takes effect to limit memory usage. Transactions which do not meet this
higher effective minimum relay fee will not be relayed or mined even if they
would rank highly according to the priority heuristic if they were accepted.
In Bitcoin Core 0.12, when mempool limit has been reached a higher minimum
relay fee takes effect to limit memory usage. Transactions which do not meet
this higher effective minimum relay fee will not be relayed or mined even if
they rank highly according to the priority heuristic.
In Bitcoin Core 0.12 the reserved space for priority heuristic selected
transactions is also set to zero.
To re-enable it, simply set `-blockprioritysize=<n>` where is the size in bytes
of your blocks to reserve for these transactions. The old default was 50k, so
to retain the same policy, you would set `-blockprioritysize=50000`.
The mining of transactions based on their priority is also now disabled by
default. To re-enable it, simply set `-blockprioritysize=<n>` where is the size
in bytes of your blocks to reserve for these transactions. The old default was
50k, so to retain approximately the same policy, you would set
`-blockprioritysize=50000`.
Additionally, as a result of computational simplifications, the priority value
used for transactions received with unconfirmed inputs is lower than in prior
versions to due avoiding recomputing the amounts as transactions confirm.
versions due to avoiding recomputing the amounts as input transactions confirm.
External miner policy set via the prioritisetransaction RPC to rank
External miner policy set via the `prioritisetransaction` RPC to rank
transactions already in the mempool continues to work as it has previously.
Note, however, that if mining priority transactions is left disabled, the
priority delta will be ignored and only the fee metric will be effective.
This internal automatic prioritization handling is being considered for removal
entirely in Bitcoin Core 0.13. Community direction on this topic is
particularly requested to help set project priorities.
entirely in Bitcoin Core 0.13, and it is at this time undecided whether the
more accurate priority calculation for chained unconfirmed transactions will be
restored. Community direction on this topic is particularly requested to help
set project priorities.
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