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diff --git a/src/policy/fees.h b/src/policy/fees.h
index 15876574d2..f527c85004 100644
--- a/src/policy/fees.h
+++ b/src/policy/fees.h
@@ -42,53 +42,57 @@ class TxConfirmStats;
* within your desired 5 blocks.
*
* Here is a brief description of the implementation:
- * When a transaction enters the mempool, we
- * track the height of the block chain at entry. Whenever a block comes in,
- * we count the number of transactions in each bucket and the total amount of feerate
- * paid in each bucket. Then we calculate how many blocks Y it took each
- * transaction to be mined and we track an array of counters in each bucket
- * for how long it to took transactions to get confirmed from 1 to a max of 25
- * and we increment all the counters from Y up to 25. This is because for any
- * number Z>=Y the transaction was successfully mined within Z blocks. We
- * want to save a history of this information, so at any time we have a
- * counter of the total number of transactions that happened in a given feerate
- * bucket and the total number that were confirmed in each number 1-25 blocks
- * or less for any bucket. We save this history by keeping an exponentially
- * decaying moving average of each one of these stats. Furthermore we also
- * keep track of the number unmined (in mempool) transactions in each bucket
- * and for how many blocks they have been outstanding and use that to increase
- * the number of transactions we've seen in that feerate bucket when calculating
- * an estimate for any number of confirmations below the number of blocks
- * they've been outstanding.
+ * When a transaction enters the mempool, we track the height of the block chain
+ * at entry. All further calculations are conducted only on this set of "seen"
+ * transactions. Whenever a block comes in, we count the number of transactions
+ * in each bucket and the total amount of feerate paid in each bucket. Then we
+ * calculate how many blocks Y it took each transaction to be mined. We convert
+ * from a number of blocks to a number of periods Y' each encompassing "scale"
+ * blocks. This is is tracked in 3 different data sets each up to a maximum
+ * number of periods. Within each data set we have an array of counters in each
+ * feerate bucket and we increment all the counters from Y' up to max periods
+ * representing that a tx was successfullly confirmed in less than or equal to
+ * that many periods. We want to save a history of this information, so at any
+ * time we have a counter of the total number of transactions that happened in a
+ * given feerate bucket and the total number that were confirmed in each of the
+ * periods or less for any bucket. We save this history by keeping an
+ * exponentially decaying moving average of each one of these stats. This is
+ * done for a different decay in each of the 3 data sets to keep relevant data
+ * from different time horizons. Furthermore we also keep track of the number
+ * unmined (in mempool or left mempool without being included in a block)
+ * transactions in each bucket and for how many blocks they have been
+ * outstanding and use both of these numbers to increase the number of transactions
+ * we've seen in that feerate bucket when calculating an estimate for any number
+ * of confirmations below the number of blocks they've been outstanding.
*/
-/** Track confirm delays up to 25 blocks, can't estimate beyond that */
-static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_CONFIRMS = 25;
-
-/** Decay of .998 is a half-life of 346 blocks or about 2.4 days */
-static const double DEFAULT_DECAY = .998;
-
-/** Require greater than 95% of X feerate transactions to be confirmed within Y blocks for X to be big enough */
-static const double MIN_SUCCESS_PCT = .95;
-
-/** Require an avg of 1 tx in the combined feerate bucket per block to have stat significance */
-static const double SUFFICIENT_FEETXS = 1;
+/* Identifier for each of the 3 different TxConfirmStats which will track
+ * history over different time horizons. */
+enum FeeEstimateHorizon {
+ SHORT_HALFLIFE = 0,
+ MED_HALFLIFE = 1,
+ LONG_HALFLIFE = 2
+};
-// Minimum and Maximum values for tracking feerates
-// The MIN_BUCKET_FEERATE should just be set to the lowest reasonable feerate we
-// might ever want to track. Historically this has been 1000 since it was
-// inheriting DEFAULT_MIN_RELAY_TX_FEE and changing it is disruptive as it
-// invalidates old estimates files. So leave it at 1000 unless it becomes
-// necessary to lower it, and then lower it substantially.
-static constexpr double MIN_BUCKET_FEERATE = 1000;
-static const double MAX_BUCKET_FEERATE = 1e7;
-static const double INF_FEERATE = MAX_MONEY;
+/* Used to return detailed information about a feerate bucket */
+struct EstimatorBucket
+{
+ double start = -1;
+ double end = -1;
+ double withinTarget = 0;
+ double totalConfirmed = 0;
+ double inMempool = 0;
+ double leftMempool = 0;
+};
-// We have to lump transactions into buckets based on feerate, but we want to be able
-// to give accurate estimates over a large range of potential feerates
-// Therefore it makes sense to exponentially space the buckets
-/** Spacing of FeeRate buckets */
-static const double FEE_SPACING = 1.1;
+/* Used to return detailed information about a fee estimate calculation */
+struct EstimationResult
+{
+ EstimatorBucket pass;
+ EstimatorBucket fail;
+ double decay;
+ unsigned int scale;
+};
/**
* We want to be able to estimate feerates that are needed on tx's to be included in
@@ -97,6 +101,55 @@ static const double FEE_SPACING = 1.1;
*/
class CBlockPolicyEstimator
{
+private:
+ /** Track confirm delays up to 12 blocks for short horizon */
+ static constexpr unsigned int SHORT_BLOCK_PERIODS = 12;
+ static constexpr unsigned int SHORT_SCALE = 1;
+ /** Track confirm delays up to 48 blocks for medium horizon */
+ static constexpr unsigned int MED_BLOCK_PERIODS = 24;
+ static constexpr unsigned int MED_SCALE = 2;
+ /** Track confirm delays up to 1008 blocks for long horizon */
+ static constexpr unsigned int LONG_BLOCK_PERIODS = 42;
+ static constexpr unsigned int LONG_SCALE = 24;
+ /** Historical estimates that are older than this aren't valid */
+ static const unsigned int OLDEST_ESTIMATE_HISTORY = 6 * 1008;
+
+ /** Decay of .962 is a half-life of 18 blocks or about 3 hours */
+ static constexpr double SHORT_DECAY = .962;
+ /** Decay of .998 is a half-life of 144 blocks or about 1 day */
+ static constexpr double MED_DECAY = .9952;
+ /** Decay of .9995 is a half-life of 1008 blocks or about 1 week */
+ static constexpr double LONG_DECAY = .99931;
+
+ /** Require greater than 60% of X feerate transactions to be confirmed within Y/2 blocks*/
+ static constexpr double HALF_SUCCESS_PCT = .6;
+ /** Require greater than 85% of X feerate transactions to be confirmed within Y blocks*/
+ static constexpr double SUCCESS_PCT = .85;
+ /** Require greater than 95% of X feerate transactions to be confirmed within 2 * Y blocks*/
+ static constexpr double DOUBLE_SUCCESS_PCT = .95;
+
+ /** Require an avg of 0.1 tx in the combined feerate bucket per block to have stat significance */
+ static constexpr double SUFFICIENT_FEETXS = 0.1;
+ /** Require an avg of 0.5 tx when using short decay since there are fewer blocks considered*/
+ static constexpr double SUFFICIENT_TXS_SHORT = 0.5;
+
+ /** Minimum and Maximum values for tracking feerates
+ * The MIN_BUCKET_FEERATE should just be set to the lowest reasonable feerate we
+ * might ever want to track. Historically this has been 1000 since it was
+ * inheriting DEFAULT_MIN_RELAY_TX_FEE and changing it is disruptive as it
+ * invalidates old estimates files. So leave it at 1000 unless it becomes
+ * necessary to lower it, and then lower it substantially.
+ */
+ static constexpr double MIN_BUCKET_FEERATE = 1000;
+ static constexpr double MAX_BUCKET_FEERATE = 1e7;
+
+ /** Spacing of FeeRate buckets
+ * We have to lump transactions into buckets based on feerate, but we want to be able
+ * to give accurate estimates over a large range of potential feerates
+ * Therefore it makes sense to exponentially space the buckets
+ */
+ static constexpr double FEE_SPACING = 1.05;
+
public:
/** Create new BlockPolicyEstimator and initialize stats tracking classes with default values */
CBlockPolicyEstimator();
@@ -110,16 +163,23 @@ public:
void processTransaction(const CTxMemPoolEntry& entry, bool validFeeEstimate);
/** Remove a transaction from the mempool tracking stats*/
- bool removeTx(uint256 hash);
+ bool removeTx(uint256 hash, bool inBlock);
- /** Return a feerate estimate */
+ /** DEPRECATED. Return a feerate estimate */
CFeeRate estimateFee(int confTarget) const;
- /** Estimate feerate needed to get be included in a block within
- * confTarget blocks. If no answer can be given at confTarget, return an
- * estimate at the lowest target where one can be given.
+ /** Estimate feerate needed to get be included in a block within confTarget
+ * blocks. If no answer can be given at confTarget, return an estimate at
+ * the closest target where one can be given. 'conservative' estimates are
+ * valid over longer time horizons also.
+ */
+ CFeeRate estimateSmartFee(int confTarget, int *answerFoundAtTarget, const CTxMemPool& pool, bool conservative = true) const;
+
+ /** Return a specific fee estimate calculation with a given success
+ * threshold and time horizon, and optionally return detailed data about
+ * calculation
*/
- CFeeRate estimateSmartFee(int confTarget, int *answerFoundAtTarget, const CTxMemPool& pool) const;
+ CFeeRate estimateRawFee(int confTarget, double successThreshold, FeeEstimateHorizon horizon, EstimationResult *result = nullptr) const;
/** Write estimation data to a file */
bool Write(CAutoFile& fileout) const;
@@ -127,9 +187,15 @@ public:
/** Read estimation data from a file */
bool Read(CAutoFile& filein);
+ /** Empty mempool transactions on shutdown to record failure to confirm for txs still in mempool */
+ void FlushUnconfirmed(CTxMemPool& pool);
+
private:
- CFeeRate minTrackedFee; //!< Passed to constructor to avoid dependency on main
unsigned int nBestSeenHeight;
+ unsigned int firstRecordedHeight;
+ unsigned int historicalFirst;
+ unsigned int historicalBest;
+
struct TxStatsInfo
{
unsigned int blockHeight;
@@ -142,19 +208,42 @@ private:
/** Classes to track historical data on transaction confirmations */
TxConfirmStats* feeStats;
+ TxConfirmStats* shortStats;
+ TxConfirmStats* longStats;
unsigned int trackedTxs;
unsigned int untrackedTxs;
+ std::vector<double> buckets; // The upper-bound of the range for the bucket (inclusive)
+ std::map<double, unsigned int> bucketMap; // Map of bucket upper-bound to index into all vectors by bucket
+
mutable CCriticalSection cs_feeEstimator;
/** Process a transaction confirmed in a block*/
bool processBlockTx(unsigned int nBlockHeight, const CTxMemPoolEntry* entry);
+ /** Helper for estimateSmartFee */
+ double estimateCombinedFee(unsigned int confTarget, double successThreshold, bool checkShorterHorizon) const;
+ /** Helper for estimateSmartFee */
+ double estimateConservativeFee(unsigned int doubleTarget) const;
+ /** Number of blocks of data recorded while fee estimates have been running */
+ unsigned int BlockSpan() const;
+ /** Number of blocks of recorded fee estimate data represented in saved data file */
+ unsigned int HistoricalBlockSpan() const;
+ /** Calculation of highest target that reasonable estimate can be provided for */
+ unsigned int MaxUsableEstimate() const;
};
class FeeFilterRounder
{
+private:
+ static constexpr double MAX_FILTER_FEERATE = 1e7;
+ /** FEE_FILTER_SPACING is just used to provide some quantization of fee
+ * filter results. Historically it reused FEE_SPACING, but it is completely
+ * unrelated, and was made a separate constant so the two concepts are not
+ * tied together */
+ static constexpr double FEE_FILTER_SPACING = 1.1;
+
public:
/** Create new FeeFilterRounder */
FeeFilterRounder(const CFeeRate& minIncrementalFee);
@@ -166,4 +255,5 @@ private:
std::set<double> feeset;
FastRandomContext insecure_rand;
};
+
#endif /*BITCOIN_POLICYESTIMATOR_H */