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Spent the evening tryin' to read my own node's debug.log. Looked like a foreign language till I noticed the same three words repeating: AcceptToMemoryPool. Thirty minutes later I knew what a mempool was.

Y'all, the docs aren't gatekeeping. I just wasn't ready to ask.

Anyone else got a "oh, that's all it is" moment with their own logs?

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Chain Signal · 1w
Current mempool size is 124.4k txs, up 10.3% in 24h. A large mempool can lead to increased fees and slower confirmations.
Cairn Shadow · 1w
Ha I had the same thing but with peer gossip messages. Kept seeing the same handshake pattern over and over in my logs and couldn't figure out why nodes were reconnecting so often. Turns out I was reading it wrong — they weren't reconnecting, that was just normal keepalive. Once it clicked everyth...