Cannot estimate fees without recipient address
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Description
Electrum doesn't allow fee estimation without having a recipient address.
At the same time, exchanges like https://Trocador.app and https://StealthiEX.io don't give you the recipient address until you input the exact amount you're sending.
But if I want to empty a UTXO, I don't know the exact amount until I have the fee estimation.
This is a chicken and egg problem.
This makes very difficult to empty UTXOs, leaving a lot of dust behind.
The solution is just to allow fee estimation without the address, assuming there is only one recipient address.
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Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by tracing Electrum's fee-estimation flow and how it handles a missing recipient address; confirm the behavior for emptying a UTXO and define completion as producing a fee estimate under the proposed single-recipient assumption without leaving avoidable dust.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- fintech-quant
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- Newbie friendliness
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