This commit made a lot of changes to test/functional/feature_rbf.py.
That functional test already had each subtest commented out, because
they weren't working properly.
For the most part, I simply accepted the incoming changes, and did not
actually get the functional test to start working.
- added a few fixme notes where necessary
- for some reason the given internal_key from upstream has a different
parity, causing verifytaprootcommitment to fail... which is why the
internal_key has been changed
- fixed up the rpc_blockchain test
Review note: The changes are complete, because self.options.descriptors
is set to None in parse_args (test_framework.py).
A value of None implies -disablewallet, see the previous commit.
So if a call to add_wallet_options is missing, it will lead to a test
failure when the wallet is compiled in.
Our RBF policy is different from the rules specified in BIP125. For
example, the BIP does not mention Rule 6, and our Rule 4 uses the
(configurable) incremental relay feerate (distinct from the
minimum relay feerate). Those interested in our policy should refer to
doc/policy/mempool-replacements.md instead. These rules may also
continue to diverge with package RBF and other RBF improvements. Keep
references to the BIP125 signaling wrt sequence numbers, since that is
still correct and widely used. It is helpful to refer to this as "BIP125
signaling" since it is unambiguous and succint, especially if we have
multiple ways to signal replaceability in the future.
The rule numbers in doc/policy/mempool-replacements.md correspond
largely to those of BIP 125, so we can still refer to them like "Rule 5."
4c9666bd73 Mention `mempoolfullrbf` in policy/mempool-replacements.md (Antoine Riard)
aae66ab43d Update getmempoolinfo RPC with `mempoolfullrbf` (Antoine Riard)
3e27e31727 Introduce `mempoolfullrbf` node setting. (Antoine Riard)
Pull request description:
This is ready for review.
Recent discussions among LN devs have brought back on the surface concerns about the security of multi-party funded transactions against pinnings attacks and other mempool-based nuisances. The lack of full-rbf transaction-relay topology connected to miners open the way to cheap and naive DoS against multi-party funded transactions (e.g coinjoins, dual-funded channels, on-chain DLCs, ...) without solutions introducing an overhead cost or centralization vectors afaik . For more details, see [0].
This PR implements a simple `fullrbf` setting, where the node always allows transaction replacement, ignoring BIP125 opt-in flag. The default value of the setting stays **false**, therefore opt-in replacement is still the default Bitcoin Core replacement policy. Contrary to a previous proposal of mine and listening to feedbacks collected since then [1], I think this new setting simply offers more flexibility in a node transaction-relay policy suiting one's application requirements, without arguing a change of the default behavior.
I [posted](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-June/020557.html) on the ML to invite operators with a bitcoin application sensitive to full-rbf (e.g dual-funded LN channels service providers) or mempool researchers to join a bootstrapped full-rbf activated peers network for experimentation and learning. If people have strong opinions against the existence of such full-rbf transaction-relay network, I'm proposing to express them on the future thread.
[0] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-May/003033.html
[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-June/019074.html
Follow-up suggestions :
- soft-enable opt-in RBF in the wallet : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353#issuecomment-1154918789
- p2p discovery and additional outbound connection to full-rbf peers : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353#issuecomment-1156044401
- match the code between RPC, wallet and mempool about disregard of inherited signaling : #22698
ACKs for top commit:
instagibbs:
reACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353/commits/4c9666bd73645b94ae81be1faf7a0b8237dd6e99
glozow:
ACK 4c9666bd73, a few nits which are non-blocking.
w0xlt:
ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353/commits/4c9666bd73645b94ae81be1faf7a0b8237dd6e99
Tree-SHA512: 9e288bf22e06a9808804e58178444ef1830c3fdd42fd8a7cd7ffb101f8f586e08b000679be407d63ca76a56f7216227b368ff630c81f3fac3243db1a1202ab1c
This new node policy setting enables to accept replaced-by-fee
transaction without inspection of the replaceability signaling
as described in BIP125 "explicit signaling".
If turns on, the node mempool accepts transaction replacement
as described in `policy/mempool-replacements.md`.
The default setting value is `false`, implying opt-in RBF
is enforced.
This testcase exercises rule 5 of BIP-125 (no more than 100 evictions
due to replacement) without having to test under non-default mempool
parametmers.
