Change paytxfee without restarting?

[kseistrup]

Hi,

I'd like to change bitcoind's ‘paytxfee’ value on the fly — i.e., without restarting bitcoind — but I can't seem to find a suitable jsonrpc command…

Anyone?

Cheers,

[jgarzik]

I agree it should be change-able at runtime.  Long-running nodes will want to adapt to changing network conditions, without needing to restart bitcoind.

Here's a patch:  http://yyz.us/bitcoin/patch.bitcoin-settxfee

Any volunteers to test ?

[kseistrup]

I agree it should be change-able at runtime.  Long-running nodes will want to adapt to changing network conditions, without needing to restart bitcoind.

Exactly!

Here's a patch:  http://yyz.us/bitcoin/patch.bitcoin-settxfee

Any volunteers to test ?

I'll bite! 

Cheers,

[kseistrup]

So far, so good.  I ran “bitcoind settxfee 0.01” from the commandline, and now “btc getinfo” shows “"paytxfee" : 0.01000000”.

Thanks for your help!!

Cheers,

[kseistrup]

Hm, there's something I don't understand.  I set txfee to BTC 0.01, then sent jgarzik BTC 0.99, thinking that this would add up to BTC 1.00.  However:

Code:

$ btc getinfo | grep txfee
    "paytxfee" : 0.01000000,
$ btc sendtoaddress 17NdbrSGoUotzeGCcMMCqnFkEvLymoou9j 0.99 "settxfee patch" jgarzik
2a59d5910721dd5729d19737f300bf9b953fc55d32e6cd16dabb8bd5885280be
$ btc gettransaction 2a59d5910721dd5729d19737f300bf9b953fc55d32e6cd16dabb8bd5885280be
{
    "amount" : -0.99000000,
    "fee" : -0.02000000,
    "confirmations" : 0,
    "txid" : "2a59d5910721dd5729d19737f300bf9b953fc55d32e6cd16dabb8bd5885280be",
    "time" : 1299789332,
    "comment" : "settxfee patch",
    "to" : "jgarzik",
    "details" : [
        {
            "account" : "",
            "address" : "17NdbrSGoUotzeGCcMMCqnFkEvLymoou9j",
            "category" : "send",
            "amount" : -0.99000000,
            "fee" : -0.02000000
        }
    ]
}
$ 

How come the fee ended up being BTC 0.02 instead of 0.01?

Cheers,

[jgarzik]

EDIT: nevermind

[jgarzik]

Blockexplorer agrees with your gettransaction output, too:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/2a59d5910721dd5729d19737f300bf9b953fc55d32e6cd16dabb8bd5885280be

Sounds like a rounding issue somewhere...

[kseistrup]

Blockexplorer agrees with your gettransaction output, too:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/2a59d5910721dd5729d19737f300bf9b953fc55d32e6cd16dabb8bd5885280be

Sounds like a rounding issue somewhere...

Yeah, it must be.  I sent BTC 1.00 to someone else, and that transaction had a fee of BTC 0.01.

Cheers,

[jgarzik]

Patch updated, to remove lower bound on TX fee.