The term "net split" has been used in networking for a long time. What is done on the networking level to avoid net splits? Is there anything done? And something that I'm curious about and if anyone is done any study of is we have a lot of mining power in China, what if they suddenly managed to split off all Western miners from all Chinese miners?
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.