Replaces transactions already in the mempool if a new transaction is seen with a higher fee, provided that the replacement transaction's outputs pay all previous outputs an equal or greater amount. This preserves the "first seen" behavior of the mempool, in the sense that a transaction will never be replaced in a fashion that prevents an address from receiving funds that it otherwise would have. In short, zero-conf transactions are unaffected. To prevent replacements from being used as a DoS attack mechanism a replacement only happens if the new transaction has a higher fee, pays a higher fee/KB rate, and the fee increase is sufficient to pay for the bandwidth consumed in relaying the replacement. Includes stand-alone unittests for regtest in qa/replace-by-fee/
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