LND Tests A Guardrail Against Extreme External Bitcoin Fee Estimates
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LND’s October 22 release candidate brings attention to a quiet source of wallet risk: outside fee estimates that software treats too generously. The 0.21.5 development notes describe a ceiling for values received through an external fee API, alongside fixes to other node operations. TL;DR The published build is v0.21.5-beta.rc1, a pre-release. The fee change limits extreme estimates supplied by an external service. Release verification and application testing answer different questions. A remote estimate needs limits before it reaches the wallet The release notes say external estimates previously had a lower bound without the corresponding upper bound. The documented repair limits the estimate before it can flow into fee-sensitive wallet operations. The associated change applies a ceiling of 10,000 satoshis per virtual byte and also bounds the API’s minimum-relay estimate.
First reported by NewsBTC. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.
