Nons is a general term, it just means Nonsons number. In the transaction, it's actually a transaction numbering scheme. Whereas in the block header, the Nons is what produces the proof of work result that you are looking for. So when a new transaction with the same Nons gets posted, like does the node just remove the old one from the transaction queue and forget about it or is there some procedure happening there?
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.
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