Homework on Mempool - Questions

  1. What is the mempool?
    It’s a table/pool of transactions waiting to be placed into the block.
  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The pool will grow in size, transactions will be slower.
  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    It’s increasing the transaction fees. Because to make faster transaction you should pay more to miner in that case.
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Homework on Mempool - Questions

  1. What is the mempool?
  • A mempool is the unconfirmed transaction done by node/wallet before miners pick them for the block.
  1. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
  • If miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transactions, the mempools will get larger and can cause longer transaction times.
  1. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
  • A growing mempool will increase the transaction fees because of the competition to get the transaction to the next block. Miners will naturally pick the one with larger fees offered first.
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  1. A Mempool is a memory pool like a waiting room for all transactions that are waiting to be included by miners onto the blockchain.
  2. When miners can’t keep up a ‘traffic jam’ occurs and transactions can take a long time to get approved unless they are at a higher fee.
  3. When the Mempool fills up the nodes start prioritising transactions by setting up a minimal transaction fee threshold and any transactions that don’t meet the threshold are removed.
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Mempool is unconfirmed transactions bundle.

Mempool size grows in unconfirmed transacions.

Transaction fees getting expensive.

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  1. A mempool is a separate database of unconfirmed or pending transactions which every node keeps.

  2. If miners cannot keep up with new transaction rates then they’ll be an increase in pending transactions = longer wait time and possibly higher fees.

  3. Mempool affect transaction fees depending on the size of bytes they have. The higher the byte per transaction the higher the fees and these will be picked up first by miners and all others will be left for later.

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  1. A mempool is a data structure that stores all unconfirmed transaction that makes sense to a particular node.
  2. The mempool becomes larger and preference is given to transactions with higher transaction fees.
  3. It causes high transaction fees.
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  1. What is the mempool?

mempool stands for memory pool. It stores unconfirmed transactions.

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

The mempool grows. The transaction time will be longer. Also, the transaction fee will increase.

  1. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?

The higher transaction fee goes first to be processed.

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  1. What is the mempool?
    A list of unconfirmed transactions on any given node.

  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The transaction will be prioritized as low and the miner will find another transaction that suits the node better.

  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    Fees will increase to attract the attention of more miners.

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  1. Mempool is collection of unconfirmed transactions.
  2. Mempool grows overtime leading to delay and increase in transaction fees.
  3. Growing mempool leads to a need to increase the transaction fees.
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  1. What is the mempool?
    [Ans] Mempool is a special storage location that is used by any node in the network to store the transaction that is received but has not yet been confirmed/written on the blockchain. Each node in the network may hold a slightly different set of transactions in mempool as the transaction propagates through the network.
  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    [Ans] The size of mempool will increase as it will have to hold more number of transactions there.
  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    [Ans] Since the miner are incentivized with a fee for writing transactions on the blockchain, they choose transactions that have a higher fees. If mempool size grows, transaction time will increase. People will tend to offer more Fees to get their transactions a priority.
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What is the mempool?
List (database) of unconfirmed transactions.

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

The mining difficulty will adjust to be easier for the 10 minute cycle.

How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
It increases the transaction fees.

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1. What is the mempool?
It is the list of unspent/unconfirmed transactions
2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
The mempool will be larger and this case the transactions time will be longer with higher fees
3.How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
A growing mempool cause a higher transaction fees

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  1. What is the mempool?
    Mempool is a list of unconfirmed transactions that accumulate between blocks
  2. What happens if the miners can’t keep up with the rate of the new transaction?
    The the mempool grows and transactions take longer
  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    Fees increase as miners are incentivized to prioritize confirming transactions with higher fees
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  1. All unconfirmed transactions. (Transactions waiting to be accepted into a block and written in the history books, forever)

  2. The mempool gets larger, fee per byte will likely go up as those who want their tx accepted asap will alter suggested fees to a higher amount than whats currently going through which in turn raises the average rate and so on.

  3. As explained above, some people might want their tx to go through sooner so they will up their fee per byte which will then flow on to the next who may want theirs first, increasing the fees further

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  1. A mem-pool is a cryptocurrency node’s mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions.

  2. Mem-pool increases in size.

  3. Transaction fees increase.

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  1. The mempool is the set of all transactions that have been broadcasted to the network but haven’t been confirmed yet (i.e.: included into a block).

  2. The mempool keeps growing and the average time required to get transactions confirmed increase

  3. As miners will prioritise transaction with high fees (monetary incentive) a way to get ahead of the queue when the mempool is big is to pay higher fees. This in turn may deter people from submitting more transactions and cause the mempool to reduce in size

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  1. The mempool is a list of confirmed and pending transactions that the miner analyses for fees and bytes
  2. The mempool backs up creating backlog of transactions not being confirmed in a timely manner
  3. As the mempool backlog grows transactions speeds slow, fees increase to incentivise miners to clear the backlog with higher rewards
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  1. Mempool is a pool of unconfirmed trxn to be picked by miners to insert it to the block as confirmed
  2. The mempool size will grow and eventually end up in longer transaction time
  3. Higher the transaction fee higher the chance of getting confirmation. So if the transaction has less fee then that transaction will be prioritized as low and take longer transaction time.
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  1. What is the mempool?

A data structure that records all unconfirmed transactions.

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

It will slow down the network and make transactions more expensive.

  1. How does a growing mempool affect transaction fees?

Miners prioritize transitions by the highest value fee. If there are too many transactions lower fee transactions will take forever and all transaction fees will increase.

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Homework on Mempool - Questions

  1. What is the mempool?
    A mempool is a list of transactions which have not been confirmed yet. This list resides on all bitcoin nodes.

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

  3. How does a growing mempool effect transaction fees?
    When the mempool grows, the fransaction fees increase.

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