Homework on Mempool - Questions

1.Mempool is the collection of all unconfirmed transactions that are located on on node.

  1. The transaction fees would rise if their are too many transactions. The miners prioritize the higher fee transactions and the lower fee transactions would remain unconfirmed for a longer period of time.

  2. The larger the memepool, the higher the transaction fees. The amount of time it takes for transactions to be confirmed also increases as the memepool grows

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  1. its a storage were transactions waits to be confirmed and put on a block by a miner.
  2. fewer transactions will be confirmed.
  3. the transactionfee will be more expensive. because the miner picks the transactions with the highest fee´s.
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1. What is the mempool?
It is a datastructure that each node has that contains the unconfirmed transactions.
2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
The mempool will grow
3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
Pushes up the transaction fees

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  1. What is the mempool?
    A list of transactions recognised by a node that are waiting to be processed (added to a block).
  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The Mempool grows and there is competition between transactions to be added to the limited space of a block (cost to miners is determined by number of bytes rather than transaction value)
  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    Miners raise fees and cherrypick transactions for which higher fees are offered by senders.
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  1. The mempool is a data structure of unconfirmed transactions that make sense to the nodes but have not been picked up by minors yet.

  2. If the minors can’t keep up with the rate of the new tx, then the mempool will increase in size and the tx will take longer to be confirmed. Minors will take a look at another node’s mempool with lower bytes in their tx that will fit in their block.

  3. A growing mempool effects tx fees due to more bytes coming out of each new tx’s inputs and outputs. More bytes result in more expensive Satoshi fees. The fee is denominated in Satoshis per byte (SAT/B).

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  1. It’s the group of unverified transactions
  2. back log for the transactions
  3. Fees go up
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  1. A mempool is a list of unconfirmed transactions for the miner to put on the blockchain.

  2. If the miner cant keep up with the rate of the new tx they will pick the ones with the highest tx fees first so that the higher the paid fee is the faster the transaction will be confirmed.

  3. The bigger the mempool becomes the higher the possible tx fees will get. Basically the miners say “hey, we cant do all the work at once so whoever pays the most will be confirmed first”

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1: The Mempool the list of UTXO’s on the nodes. Each node carries this information but not all nodes have the exact same UTXO’s.
2: The transactions will take longer and the Mempool will grow until the miners catch up.
3: The larger the Mempool the longer your transactions will take to be confirmed by the blockchain. The miners look for the biggest fees to get the most out of each block they confirm.

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Homework on Mempool - Questions

  1. What is the mempool?

Its list of transactions in the nodes that are waiting to be put in the future blocks

  1. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?

If the miners can’t keep up with the speed transactions are created in the mempool there will be a long time to process them into the blockchain

  1. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?

The miners chose which transactions they want to put into the blockchain and they are financially incentivized to take the ones that offer a higher fee.

That’s why the price goes up when the network is congested it’s like an auction-style process.

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  1. The mempool is a list of all unconfirmed transactions a node is aware of (each node keeps its own mempool, which might differ slightly between nodes).

  2. The mempool will grow, and transactions with lower fees might take a very long time to get confirmed.

  3. Transaction fees will go up. Miner’s are paid by transaction fees, so they pick the transactions with higher fees first. So if lots of transactions are competing to get confirmed, people will start to “bid” higher transaction fees.

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  1. What is the mempool?
    The mempool is a list of all the unconfirmed transactions in the blockchain.

  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The new transaction won’t be added to the block they’re building.

  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    It will effect transactions fees by an increase in the fee rate, as people who want to make sure their transactions are confirmed are willing to pay more so miners include them in their blocks.

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  1. The memepool is a list of outstanding transaction awaiting confirmation.

  2. The transactions build up in the memepool.

  3. Transaction fees get larger as more transactions sit as pending so people are willing to pay a larger fee during periods of volume for a quicker transaction.

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1. What is the mempool?
1.A. The mempool is the list of all unconfirmed Tx that are waiting for a miner to include in a block.

2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
2.A. Miners include blocks every 10mins, so if there is large a demand beyond this then it will keep growing in size.

3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
3.A. Miners choose larger Tx Fees creating a market place of time versus Tx Fee, a growing mempool will amplify this market meaning the larger Tx Fee the quicker your Tx will be included in the block.

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  1. This where each node stores its unconfirmed transactions. This is where miners find transactions to include in the next block.

  2. Increasing transaction time. Miners aren’t able to confirm transactions at the same rate as the mempools fills up.

  3. The simple answer is that growing mempools generates higher fees. Miners want to make money so they pick the transactions with highest paid fee. So when traffic is high and you want your transactions confirmed right away, you’d have to pay higher fees in order to incentives miners to include your transaction in the next block.

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A mempool is a data structure that each node has a list of unconfirmed txs.

The miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new tx then the mempool will fill up.

When the mempool is full, the fees that meet the miners fee request will be added to the block while the others will take more time to be processed.

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  1. What is the mempool?
    A collection of all the unconfirmed transactions waiting to be put on the blockchain by a miner.

  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The mempool will grow in size as the transaction come in.

  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    The fee will eventually go up as the time for confirmation grows longer the users will be incentivized to pay a higher fee to get their transaction onto the blockchain quicker.

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  1. What is the mempool?
  • A mempool is a list of transactions that are sent but not yet confirmed and included in a block.
  1. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
  • Transactions will wait longer in the mempool
  1. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
  • Increase the fees, because obviously the demand is higher
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1. What is a mempool?
A Mempool is a data structure where unconfirmed transactions that have not yet been picked up by miners are placed.
2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
If miners can’t keep up with transaction rates it would create a backlog and transaction processing times would increase.
3. How does a growing mempool affect transaction fees?
A growing mempool would cause higher transaction fees as miners tend to process transactions with highest fees first.

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  1. What is a mempool?

A mempool is the place where all nodes and miners’ unconfirmed transactions are kept.

  1. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?

These new transactions will become unconfirmed transactions and will be placed in the miners’ mempool.

  1. How does a growing mempool affect the transaction fees?

In a large mempool the miners will choose the transactions with the highest fees.

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  1. Mempool is a queue of unconfirmed transactions that are spread throughout the network and then those transactions are moved from the mempool to a block

  2. Then the unconfirmed transactions will just pile up in the mempool

  3. It would increase transaction fees since people will be outbidding each other to get their transactions confirmed

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