The Bitcoin Development Podcast

Mempool Ancestors and Descendants

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John and Gloria continue their discussion of Bitcoin's mempool by explaining parent, child, ancestor and descendant transactions.

  • (0:00) - Parent and child transactions
  • (2:23) - Relevance of ancestors and descendants to the mempool
  • (4:17) - Reasons transactions leave the mempool
  • (6:58) - Block construction considerations for miners
  • (11:46) - Full node performance considerations
  • (16:15) - Child pays for parent and missing inputs

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