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Rabbit Hole Recap #252: Mempools Running Hot

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The Impact of Zero Conf on Bitcoin Mining

The biggest pushback came from businesses that are trying to do zero conf and in a fee environment like we saw last week, zero conf is basically too risky. I think it's just that there are so many transactions, like over half a million transactions in the mempool that Bitcoin cores get block template was taking like 30 or 60 seconds to run. So what the mining pools were sending to the miners to mine on was already like a minute or two old. And so that’s why you had somebody stale blocks.

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