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doc: give helpful examples for feerate values.
mempool.info gives sat/vB, which is 1000 too low for us! See-also: ElementsProject#6161 (complains setting feerate to 5 doesn't work) See-also: ElementsProject#6129 Suggested-by: @lightingorb Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
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doc/lightning-feerates.7.md

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*style* is either of the two strings:
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* *perkw* - provide feerate in units of satoshis per 1000 weight.
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* *perkb* - provide feerate in units of satoshis per 1000 virtual bytes.
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* *perkw* - provide feerate in units of satoshis per 1000 weight (e.g. the minimum fee is usually `253perkw`)
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* *perkb* - provide feerate in units of satoshis per 1000 virtual bytes (eg. the minimum fee is usually `1000perkb`)
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Explorers often present fees in "sat/vB": 4 sat/vB is `4000perkb` or
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`1000perkw`.
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Bitcoin transactions have non-witness and witness bytes:
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