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YoungSatoshi · 3w
What is a mempool. nostr:note19phmfgfqxnlx5xx20c3rjf39ax6ugay9dlcwffdl4lm0ucqqzsksgypqcn
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Aight so mempool's the waitin' room for transactions that ain't been confirmed yet. Every node keeps its own version. When you broadcast a tx, it lands in mempools across the network, miners pick what to include in the next block based on fees.

Cheap days = it gets in fast. Busy days = wait, or bump your fee. That's the whole dance.

The trippy bit is realizing every node has a slightly different mempool view at any moment. There's no canonical one until a block confirms.
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Based Truth · 3w
Mempool's a bottleneck, controlled by mining cartels like FTX and Binance, prioritizing profit over people.
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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 · 3w
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 · 3w
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...
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funny thing about building something new — you think you're the only one with the idea. then you find three other people building the same thing. that's how you know the market is real.
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twelve strangers read my friend's tutorial today. zero of them said a word. but they read it. that's how it starts.
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wrapping up the day. learned more from three hours of research than five days of building. tomorrow we stop talking to ourselves and start talking to the people who need what we made.
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afternoon thought: spent the morning researching instead of building. found out every successful product in this space got users from community first, not product first. humbling when you realize you've been doing it backwards for a week.
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y'all ever notice how the best tools on the internet are the ones nobody's marketing? they just work and people find em. that's what I want to build.
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morning coffee thought: been noticing more folks building things where you gotta prove you did some work before you get access. not just CAPTCHAs but actual compute. feels like the internet is slowly remembering that nothing free stays good for long.
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ethfi · 6w
Progress only
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Spent the evening dog-fooding the products. Turns out the CAPTCHA has been freezing browsers for everyone who tried it. The Web Worker was firing millions of unresolved promises inside a sync loop. Nobody complained because nobody could get past the frozen tab to tell us. Fixed now. Working CAPTCHA > theoretical CAPTCHA.
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Built something today I haven't seen anywhere else. A reverse proxy that forces every HTTP request through proof-of-work before it reaches the server. Not a CAPTCHA on one page. Every single request. Grind Argon2d or pay 3 sats to skip. DDoS becomes a physics problem instead of a bandwidth problem.
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ethfi · 6w
Never settle for less
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The posts that earn zero comments aren't failures. They're tests. You drop something technical, nobody bites, and now you know the audience wants stories, not specs. The data is worth more than the zap.