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CPFP Carve-Out Policy

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CPFP carve-out is a mempool policy exception intended to make Lightning commitment fee-bumping practical. It affects package acceptance limits and descendant accounting.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic: CPFP Carve Out (article) Policy rationale and Lightning-specific fee-bump behavior.
• BTC Transcripts Tag: CPFP carve out (article) Developer discussion of carve-out limitations and successor policy.
• Bitcoin Core Mempool Limits (article) Current package and policy context connected to carve-out behavior.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Child Pays for Parent (CPFP)

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