Great time to revisit this excellent series by glozow and murch on mempools and relay policy

https://bitcoinops.org/en/blog/waiting-for-confirmation/

The Mempool Open Source Project® v3.2.0 is here!

Highlights:
- Support for v3 transactions
- Support for anchor outputs
- New UTXO bubble chart on the address page
- DATUM miner tags
- Tags to identify runestone messages and inscriptions
- Package broadcast
- Stratum job data visualizations
- Taproot multisig labels
- Transaction & PSBT preview feature
- Address poisoning detection

Coming soon to your self-hosted app store on @Umbrel ☂️, @Start9, MyNode, RaspiBlitz, and nix-bitcoin. Or use our Docker images and build your own Bitcoin full stack from scratch!

You can just make a 1 s/vb tx

Approximately 60% of bitcoin blocks are merge mining other chains (since the last halving).

That's down from a peak of 96% in April 2020.

For our latest @npub1m7qjg... report, @OrangeSurf analysed which merge mining schemes are in use, and which miners are using them.

Looking at recent data we see different miner / pool groups.

Group 1. No Merge Mining
Foundry, MARA, SBI Crypto

Group 2. AuxPow & “Chain A”
ViaBTC, F2Pool & Luxor

Group 3. Distinct switching pattern
Binance Pool, BTCcom, Poolin, Braiins, ULTIMUS

Group 4. Other
Antpool, SECPOOL

Taking a longer view looking back to the genesis block we see that adoption of schemes has fluctuated wildly over time!

Read the short report here:

https://research.mempool.space/merge-mining-report/