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Low 32 Bitcoin

Select transactions for blocks based on chunk feerate

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Suhas Daftuar

65/100 · Adequate
Select transactions for blocks based on chunk feerate

Co-Authored-By: Gregory Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit refactors how Bitcoin Core selects transactions for new blocks. It replaces an older, more complex ancestor-feerate algorithm with a new 'chunk feerate' approach driven by a new mempool graph builder. The change is a significant rewrite of mining transaction selection logic, but the commit itself does not describe any security bug or fix. Because it is a large behavioral change in consensus-adjacent code, it carries ordinary implementation risks, but there is no direct evidence in the commit of a vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal high-touch refactor: review the new TxGraph::BlockBuilder implementation (not shown in this diff) for correctness, lock ordering, and consistency with the removed inBlock/mapModifiedTx invariants. Run mining/block-assembly regression tests and fuzz tests. No immediate security response is indicated by this commit alone.

Security signals we found

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Large refactor of block-template transaction selection (consensus-adjacent code)

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Removal of inBlock tracking and mapModifiedTx state; new dependency on TxGraph::BlockBuilder correctness

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New EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED annotations around mempool cs in block builder helpers

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, bug, or security fix in commit message or diff

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Change in selection economics from ancestor-feerate to chunk-feerate could affect miner incentives and block template composition

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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