CD101: Mempools and Transaction Fees with the Mempool Space Team - Wiz, Simon, and Steve
Citadel Dispatch
The Importance of Mempools in the Bitcoin Network
You should run your own instance of the Mempool open source project on your own hardware. Trust to third parties or security holes and we want to make it easy for everyone to do it because if Mempool Dot Space got attacked or censored or went down for whatever reason, you can always rely on your own locally self-hosted instance. But I think it's important for us to take it back a step and talk about what are Mempools and why are they important? Yeah, so it's a core feature of the Bitcoin network that there's a block every 10 minutes and there's a scarce block space. Before up till 2017 it was one megabyte and now it's up to
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