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diff --git a/src/policy/fees.h b/src/policy/fees.h
index 8c34bee237..717eabd74b 100644
--- a/src/policy/fees.h
+++ b/src/policy/fees.h
@@ -22,51 +22,6 @@ class CTxMemPoolEntry;
class CTxMemPool;
class TxConfirmStats;
-/** \class CBlockPolicyEstimator
- * The BlockPolicyEstimator is used for estimating the feerate needed
- * for a transaction to be included in a block within a certain number of
- * blocks.
- *
- * At a high level the algorithm works by grouping transactions into buckets
- * based on having similar feerates and then tracking how long it
- * takes transactions in the various buckets to be mined. It operates under
- * the assumption that in general transactions of higher feerate will be
- * included in blocks before transactions of lower feerate. So for
- * example if you wanted to know what feerate you should put on a transaction to
- * be included in a block within the next 5 blocks, you would start by looking
- * at the bucket with the highest feerate transactions and verifying that a
- * sufficiently high percentage of them were confirmed within 5 blocks and
- * then you would look at the next highest feerate bucket, and so on, stopping at
- * the last bucket to pass the test. The average feerate of transactions in this
- * bucket will give you an indication of the lowest feerate you can put on a
- * transaction and still have a sufficiently high chance of being confirmed
- * 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. 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 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 successfully 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.
- */
-
/* Identifier for each of the 3 different TxConfirmStats which will track
* history over different time horizons. */
enum class FeeEstimateHorizon {
@@ -130,7 +85,50 @@ struct FeeCalculation
int returnedTarget = 0;
};
-/**
+/** \class CBlockPolicyEstimator
+ * The BlockPolicyEstimator is used for estimating the feerate needed
+ * for a transaction to be included in a block within a certain number of
+ * blocks.
+ *
+ * At a high level the algorithm works by grouping transactions into buckets
+ * based on having similar feerates and then tracking how long it
+ * takes transactions in the various buckets to be mined. It operates under
+ * the assumption that in general transactions of higher feerate will be
+ * included in blocks before transactions of lower feerate. So for
+ * example if you wanted to know what feerate you should put on a transaction to
+ * be included in a block within the next 5 blocks, you would start by looking
+ * at the bucket with the highest feerate transactions and verifying that a
+ * sufficiently high percentage of them were confirmed within 5 blocks and
+ * then you would look at the next highest feerate bucket, and so on, stopping at
+ * the last bucket to pass the test. The average feerate of transactions in this
+ * bucket will give you an indication of the lowest feerate you can put on a
+ * transaction and still have a sufficiently high chance of being confirmed
+ * 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. 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 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 successfully 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.
+ *
* We want to be able to estimate feerates that are needed on tx's to be included in
* a certain number of blocks. Every time a block is added to the best chain, this class records
* stats on the transactions included in that block