If you're transaction is not accepted in the next few blocks, then you probably start to think, yeah, maybe I did something wrong. You can either like try to increase the fee or you can try to look in one of those widely known kind of centralized services that allow you to view their mentals. So for instance on Eaters come or I believe my crypto as well, you can go there and see if the transaction actually got from your notes to their notes. It doesn't guarantee that it's going to be mined, but at least you know that it went through your through through the network and it propagated to some other peers. But in this case, you'd have to
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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