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Informational 23 Bitcoin

Remove opt-in RBF

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Pol Espinasa

51/100 · Thin
Remove opt-in RBF

Remove the option to signal or not signal for BIP 125 (Opt-in Full Replace-By-Fee).
By removing the option in the GUI it will fallback to the wallet configuration which by default is
true unless the user changed it using CLI.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes the on/off checkbox in the Bitcoin Core desktop wallet that let users choose whether a transaction should signal 'Replace-By-Fee' (RBF). After the change, the GUI simply follows the wallet's configuration setting instead. It is a user-interface simplification, not a fix for a software vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal UI/UX change. Wallet operators who relied on the GUI checkbox to disable RBF per transaction should now use the -walletrbf=0 configuration option if they wish to disable RBF globally.

Security signals we found

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No memory-safety, cryptographic, or consensus changes

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No input validation, parsing, or network code modified

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Change is confined to Qt GUI and wallet test code

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Behavioral change: GUI no longer lets users opt out of RBF per transaction; defaults to wallet setting

Risk score

Why this scored 23/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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