# Bitcoin Developers Move to Retire a Fee Feature That Became a Tracking Fingerprint

The 'replace by fee' option that lets users speed up a delayed transaction has become a privacy liability, and core developers now want to phase it out.

- Published: 2026-06-22T10:29:30.461Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-06-22/bitcoin-developers-move-to-retire-a-fee-feature-that-became
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/22/bitcoin-developers-want-to-fix-the-replace-this-transaction-with-a-higher-fee-button-here-s-why)

Bitcoin developers want to remove a once-useful feature that lets a user replace a pending transaction with a higher-fee version, after it became both redundant and a means of tracking, CoinDesk reported. The feature, known as replace-by-fe…

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