When testing a transaction for mempool acceptance, the fee must be calculated anyway. Thus, with minimal complexity overhead, the testmempoolaccept RPC could return the fee to the user.

Useful skills:

Basic understanding of the mempool, the Bitcoin Core RPC interface, and the functional test framework.

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