Weak Blocks
Date: April 8, 2024
Tags: Bitcoin core, Mining
Category: Core dev tech
Weak blocks: propagate stuff with low PoW as you are building it
- use cases / why you wouldn’t hear of stuff
- nonstandard to you
- somehow didn’t propagate to you
- miner’s prioritisetransaction stuff with no fees
- why is this coming up now?
- more mempool heterogeneity
- “accelerate nonstandard transactions” services
- poc code: submits to mempool, rejected ones are stored in separate cache
Questions
- why would a miner do this? (similar to compact blocks?)
- add to mempool?
- what if invalid/nonstandard?
- good for fee estimation
- why didn’t we do weak blocks before, years ago?
- some of it was pre-compact blocks