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wallet, rpc:remove settxfee and paytxfee

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Pol Espinasa

45/100 · Thin
wallet, rpc:remove settxfee and paytxfee
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes two old Bitcoin Core fee-setting mechanisms: the command-line option `-paytxfee` and the RPC command `settxfee`. These had already been marked as deprecated. Users must now set fees per transaction using explicit options like `fee_rate` instead of a global default. There is no security vulnerability here; it is a planned API cleanup that may break old scripts or workflows that still rely on the removed options.

Recommended action

No security action required. Operators and integrators should update automation, configuration files, and user documentation to remove `-paytxfee` and `settxfee`, replacing them with per-transaction `fee_rate` parameters or fee-estimation targets. Test suites relying on these removed options will need the same migration shown in the diff.

Security signals we found

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Removal of deprecated wallet fee configuration options

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Simplification of fee-rate precedence logic in wallet fee calculation

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Test-only changes: functional tests migrated from global settxfee/paytxfee to per-call fee_rate

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No new cryptographic, network, or consensus code introduced

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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