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+wallet startup option
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+- A new wallet startip option `-maxfeerate` is added.
+- This option sets the upper limit for wallet transaction fee rate.
+- The wallet will now refrain from creating transactions with a feerate exceeding the   `maxfeerate`.
+- The default feerate is 10,000 satoshis per virtual byte.
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