John and Gloria continue their discussion of Bitcoin’s mempool by explaining parent, child, ancestor and descendant transactions.
- 0:00 - Parent and child transactions
- 2:23 - Relevance of ancestors and descendants to the mempool
- 4:17 - Reasons transactions leave the mempool
- 6:58 - Block construction considerations for miners
- 11:46 - Full node performance considerations
- 16:15 - Child pays for parent and missing inputs
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