Track the average transaction mass throughout the mempool's lifespan #599
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Tracks the average transaction mass throughout the mempool's lifespan using a decaying formulae.
The intention is to avoid sensitivity to cases where the mempool has only a few transactions with unusually high mass, which affects the fee estimation mechanism (block slots in the estimator are defined by the average mass).
By using a decaying formula over all history we get: