Bitcoin developers want to fix the ‘replace this transaction with a higher fee’ button. Here’s why
A helpful feature of speeding up transactions has become redundant and a “fingerprint” for tracking. Developers now want to do away with it.
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Summary
- Bitcoin developers want to remove explicit replace-by-fee (RBF) signaling from wallet software because full-RBF is now standard policy, making the old opt-in flag redundant.
- Keeping the legacy RBF signal creates unnecessary on-chain fingerprints that can reveal which wallet software was used.
- Developers are coordinating on a common default input sequence number, likely the already dominant MAX-2, so that transactions from different wallets look similar and are harder to track.
