A helpful feature of speeding up transactions has become redundant and a "fingerprint" for tracking. Developers now want to do away with it. Bitcoin developers want to remove explicit replace-by-fee (RBF) signaling from wallet software because full-RBF is now standard policy, making the old opt-in flag redundant. Keeping the legacy RBF signal creates unnecessary on-chain fingerprints that can reveal which wallet software was used. Developers are coordinating on a common default input sequence n…
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