Bitcoin Optech #298: Cluster Mempool Analysis with 2023 Transactions

This week’s issue summarizes an analysis of how a node with cluster mempool behaved when tested with all transactions seen on the network in 2023.

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #298 is here. This issue:

summarizes an analysis of how a node with cluster mempool behaved when tested with all transactions seen on the network in 2023;
summarizes changes to services/client software, including Bitcoin Core 27.0 release;
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