I did not know that there was such as thing as `incrementalRelayFee` and so I had to look it up and of course I found an excellent explanation on [Stack Exchange.](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/120778/what-is-incremental-relay-feerate)

Thanks for the clarification and the education!

To be precise, Bitcoin Core 30.0 is lowering the `minRelayTxFee` and `incrementalRelayFee` by a factor ten to 0.1 s/vB.

Murch

Jargon point: ah, thanks! I was intentionally avoiding calling the subsidy a 

 for some reason (which I cannot make sense of at the moment).

simply by replacements being incremented in smaller steps

This is a great point. Who's gonna fee bump by 1 sat/vB when they can fee bump by 1 sat? (Perhaps an exaggeration on my part).

bitcoin

Have we all been overpaying for Bitcoin transactions?

Scoresby

Jargon point: ah, thanks! I was intentionally avoiding calling the subsidy a *subsidy* for some reason (which I cannot make sense of at the moment).

> simply by replacements being incremented in smaller steps

This is a great point. Who's gonna fee bump by 1 sat/vB when they can fee bump by 1 sat? (Perhaps an exaggeration on my part).