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bash CPFP-Fee-Calculator.sh - Add the details of your parent tx weight from mempool explorers like Mempool
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Quick Child Pays for Parent (CPFP) calculator in Bash to ensure you use the right fee to bump an unconfirmed transaction
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| echo "This estimates how many sats/vbyte you need to bump your child tx to get your desired parent fee" | |
| #x= targetChildFee | |
| #x = (sat/vB_effective * (vB_parent + vB_child) - current_parent_fee) / vB_child | |
| read -p "Enter the total amount of sats your current(parent) tx cost? " currentFee | |
| read -p "What fee do you want your tx to be in sats/vbyte? " effectiveFee | |
| read -p "Enter Virtual size of Parent? " vBParent | |
| read -p "Enter Virtual size of child? " vBChild | |
| x=$(echo "scale=2; (($effectiveFee * ($vBParent + $vBChild)) - $currentFee) / $vBChild" | bc) | |
| echo -e "Your Child tx needs to be \033[32m$x\033[0m sats/vByte for your parent tx to be \033[32m$effectiveFee\033[0m sats/vByte" |
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