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General Discussion / Re: Percentage based transfer fee [BSIP10] implemented
« on: January 26, 2016, 03:26:38 am »One scenario need to be taken into consideration:
Since CERs of smart coins change frequently, there may be race conditions when a transfer operation and a price feed operation appear at a same block.
Usually a user need some seconds to confirm her transaction, or say, after the "Please confirm the transaction" page is shown, before the user clicks 'OK', if CER changed, the transaction would probably fail due to insufficient fee provided. It will cause negative user experience.
Imo this should be included in BSIP.
I have an idea to solve this issue (sure it will make the whole thing more complicated):
* For smart coins, show a message "you need to confirm in 60 seconds" on the "please confirm" page, if the user failed to confirm in 60 seconds, disable the "OK" button.
* Maintain the "worst" CERs of every smart coins in last 3 minutes somewhere in witness_node. The fee is only required to be not lower than the lowest one.
Thoughts?
@jakub @svk
I think the simplest solution may be to overpay fees by 1% or so. This would give a buffer for CER movement.
The scenario you describe is a potential problem even without percentage-based fees, correct?