I think it would be really cool to follow the journey of a transaction. Maybe you can walk us through where it goes and how it gets to a minor in the end. Yeah. So with the transaction, so the first step to actually have your transaction included is to generate the transaction. And that happens locally on your computer because every transaction in Ethereum network has to be signed with your private key.
In this episode, we are joined by Tomasz Drwięga, a Core Developer at Parity Technologies, to discuss the lifecycle of a transaction on the Ethereum network and how the mempool works.
We will be covering the following topics:
- What a mempool/transaction queue/transaction pool is.
- How a transaction reaches a mempool and what the mempool does with it.
- Looking at what causes the CPU increase and delays in the network.
- What happens when a transaction gets stuck.
- Gossip.
- The security properties of the mempool.
- What a network attack could look like.
Here are some additional links and ressources if you want to dig deeper.