"Fee estimation" refers to the process of calculating or estimating the amount of money that will be charged or required for a particular service, product, or transaction. It helps in determining the cost or price associated with a specific activity or task.
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Other wallet platforms can adopt a similar system and integrate
better fee estimation methods to decrease fees and clear transactions more efficiently.
In fact, it was one of the primary design objective to avoid requiring anyone perform multidimensional optimization because of the problems they create in terms
of fee estimation for users and optimal fee block construction...
It was also among the first wallets to offer modern multisig addresses, the first wallet to
include fee estimation instead of static fees, the first mobile wallet to support hardware wallets, and more.
Specifically, wallets that are secure, easy to use, intuitive, and which use the latest cutting - edge technology and are able to handle different types of fees and
provide fee estimation are sorely needed.
Some methods of cutting down on transactions fees mentioned by Harding included transaction batching, Segregated Witness (SegWit),
dynamic fee estimation and UTXO consolidation.
The fee market does mean that the lowest valued transactions get priced out of the market, but now
that fee estimation is widely supported, and wallets are beginning to add support for replace - by - fee fee bumping, we do have good mechanisms for users to outbid those lowest valued transactions and keep using Bitcoin.
SW: Many wallet providers — inexplicably the most well - funded ones are the most guilty — haven't invested any time into proper
fee estimation and management until very recently.
Bitcoin Core 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 both refined
the fee estimation software, and Bitcoin 0.14.0 now includes another set of improvements, which in particular makes the algorithm more robust in edge case situations.