Zero Knowledge is a podcast where we explore the latest in blockchain technology and the decentralized web. In this episode we sit down with Tamash from Parody Technologies to talk about what a mempool is and the life cycle of a transaction on the Ethereum network.
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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