What happens to transactions in an orphaned block? How can I fix stuck transactions? How do replace-by-fee (RBF) and child-pays-for-parent (CPFP) work?

These questions are from part of the May and August monthly Patreon Q&A sessions, which took place on May 26th and (late) on September 1st 2018 respectively. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop

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13 COMMENTS

  1. Andreas. What are your thoughts about a dynamic cap for BTC?
    We've lost four million already? How many in 200 years? Shouldn't there be a way to re-mine lost bitcoin? If not, isn't there a danger of BTC extinction over time?

  2. come on. these aren't things users should care about. why aren't there any useful wallets with a nice interface yet? also most wallts have a way too high minimum transaction fee. sorry but as a non IT guy I just get mad as those things.

  3. bitcoin has 10min blocktime. In a blockchain with lower blocktime, you should have more stale blocks. does it make the chain less trust worthy? how are the odds to get a Tx rejected?

  4. When creating transactions for pay role payments, since you mentioned it, would it be possible to handle that in one transactions with multiple outputs and wouldn't it be cheaper. would it pose any security risks in doing so, such as being able to figure out one of the cryptographic variables to get the private key. Also, are there any open source projects that you know that have a pay role payment generator (I have no idea what it would be called, sorry, hope I'm descriptive enough), I would definitely love to delve into this for my own business as well a decentralized platform as a service to make crypto pay role in general more convenient…

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