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authorAlex Morcos <morcos@chaincode.com>2017-01-05 09:10:08 -0500
committerAlex Morcos <morcos@chaincode.com>2017-01-06 10:12:05 -0500
commit42f5ce40931402aaa395ef2959deb64e9a9fff02 (patch)
tree650bad83761a48cafdeed51a047fb3a63b559a3c
parentf646275b90b1de93bc62b4c4d045d75ac0b96eee (diff)
downloadbitcoin-42f5ce40931402aaa395ef2959deb64e9a9fff02.tar.xz
Try to reduce change output to make needed fee in CreateTransaction
Once we've picked coins and dummy-signed the transaction to calculate fee, if we don't have sufficient fee, then try to meet the fee by reducing change before resorting to picking new coins.
-rw-r--r--src/wallet/wallet.cpp12
-rw-r--r--src/wallet/wallet.h4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
index ff7a03bc55..bdf6d3c7a6 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
@@ -2537,6 +2537,18 @@ bool CWallet::CreateTransaction(const vector<CRecipient>& vecSend, CWalletTx& wt
if (nFeeRet >= nFeeNeeded)
break; // Done, enough fee included.
+ // Try to reduce change to include necessary fee
+ if (nChangePosInOut != -1 && nSubtractFeeFromAmount == 0) {
+ CAmount additionalFeeNeeded = nFeeNeeded - nFeeRet;
+ vector<CTxOut>::iterator change_position = txNew.vout.begin()+nChangePosInOut;
+ // Only reduce change if remaining amount is still a large enough output.
+ if (change_position->nValue >= MIN_FINAL_CHANGE + additionalFeeNeeded) {
+ change_position->nValue -= additionalFeeNeeded;
+ nFeeRet += additionalFeeNeeded;
+ break; // Done, able to increase fee from change
+ }
+ }
+
// Include more fee and try again.
nFeeRet = nFeeNeeded;
continue;
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.h b/src/wallet/wallet.h
index 1d1f84ebb9..b9fa6bb24b 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.h
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.h
@@ -48,8 +48,10 @@ static const CAmount DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_FEE = 0;
static const CAmount DEFAULT_FALLBACK_FEE = 20000;
//! -mintxfee default
static const CAmount DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE = 1000;
-//! minimum change amount
+//! target minimum change amount
static const CAmount MIN_CHANGE = CENT;
+//! final minimum change amount after paying for fees
+static const CAmount MIN_FINAL_CHANGE = MIN_CHANGE/2;
//! Default for -spendzeroconfchange
static const bool DEFAULT_SPEND_ZEROCONF_CHANGE = true;
//! Default for -sendfreetransactions