Delving Bitcoin
Last spring, @sipa and I first floated a concept for a new mempool design to a group of Bitcoin Core contributors, which I later wrote up as a github issue (Proposal for a new mempool design · Issue #27677 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub). Over the course of the past year, the ideas have been refined, and I will use this post to provide an updated high level summary of the overall proposal – including the motivations and implications – for anyone looking to catch up on this topic. Proposal overvie...