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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index f16eec32a2..9272d427cd 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,2 +1,21 @@ (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to release-notes at release time) + +New RPC methods +=============== + +Fee/Priority estimation +----------------------- + +estimatefee nblocks : Returns approximate fee-per-1,000-bytes needed for +a transaction to be confirmed within nblocks. Returns -1 if not enough +transactions have been observed to compute a good estimate. + +estimatepriority nblocks : Returns approximate priority needed for +a zero-fee transaction to confirm within nblocks. Returns -1 if not +enough free transactions have been observed to compute a good +estimate. + +Statistics used to estimate fees and priorities are saved in the +data directory in the 'fee_estimates.dat' file just before +program shutdown, and are read in at startup. |