What is Cluster mempool

Cluster mempool is a proposal that has been in the works for months now.

It optimizes the mempool, making operations using the mempool more efficient by linearizing mempool clusters. These are partitions of the mempool itself, and together they make the mempool.

There are many improvements with this change but you should read the PR to get the details. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33629

To learn more:

Bitcoin Optech post: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cluster-mempool/

Delving Bitcoin post: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 26 Nov

I have to admit I feel like I've been hearing about cluster mempool for a lot longer than months, and yet I somehow have never really managed to understand it. I just spent half an hour reading about it, and it's really cool. But I also think I see why it doesn't get much atteniton.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kevkevin OP 28 Nov

Yea I feel like cluster mempool isn't easy to understand and I didn't get it for a while. I agree it's really cool but optimizing isnt super sexy or cool like smart contracting or consensus changes so I understand why people are not too excited by it.

But I'm excited and I guess that's all that matter 😂