Mempool and Policy

Описание: I want to talk about how the relay of unconfirmed transactions works, what incentives and limitations are at work, and what we are trying to achieve with Mempool and Mempool Policy. I will go into network-wide and node-specific goals and concerns, general limitations, and proposals currently in development.

This talk will be based on the “Waiting for Confirmation” series Gloria Zhao and I have been putting out in the Bitcoin Optech newsletter for the past months.
What would an attendee learn from this talk?

An attendee should learn why there is no such thing as “the mempool”, but how we are trying to get as close as possible to a thing as ‘’the mempool”, why mempool policies are much stricter than the consensus rules, and where the mempool is going from here.
Is there anything folks should read up on before they attend this talk?

It’s probably helpful if you have ever sent some Bitcoin transactions and tried to figure out when one of them confirms to appreciate this talk. ;)
Relevant Links

Waiting for Confirmation
instagibbs’ mempool policy zoo

About the Speaker

Murch has been contributing to Bitcoin Stack Exchange for over ten years and working fulltime in the Bitcoin space since 2017. He contributes to Bitcoin Core, the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter and Recap, the Chaincode Podcast, and co-host BitDevs NYC. Sometimes he writes about the mempool weather on Twitter.
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Website

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