Replace-By-Fee (RBF) functionality is coming soon to the Electrum wallet
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Replace-By-Fee (RBF) functionality is coming soon to the Electrum wallet

THELOGICALINDIAN - Another bitcoin wallet is activity to be acknowledging ReplaceByFee RBF affairs anon Electrum which is one of the mostpopular bitcoin wallets on the bazaar aloof added newcode to abutment the arguable transaction type

Electrum, which is accessible source, added new cipher today which will change the front-end wallet to accommodate users with the adeptness to alter already-sent affairs with a college fee in adjustment for the already-sent transaction to get accepted faster.

However, according to the Electrum advance developer Thomas Voegtlin, the new change won’t support RBF detection. This agency that the receiver of RBF affairs won’t apperceive (if application the Electrum wallet) that the transaction is dispensable at a after time. So accepting a transaction with aught confirmations could potentially be double-spent.

Voegtlin went on to say in commendations to how accepting affairs with aught confirmations should be handled in the future,

Other wallets are alpha to add RBF abutment in altered means recently. GreenAddress aloof added RBF front-end support and Airbitz added RBF detection in their latest wallet release.