I have thousands of transactions in mempool but not very many have been committed to the blockchain. Can anyone tell me why?
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1It’s not entirely clear to me what your actual question was. Are you asking why each block does not confirm all waiting transactions at once?– Murch ♦Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 18:41
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Is there any way to commit mempool transactions to blockchain?
By mining
I have thousands of transactions in mempool but not very many have been committed to the blockchain. Can anyone tell me why?
That ought to be normal, depending on what time period is involved.
Every node keeps a list of unconfirmed transactions in their mempool.
Miners take transactions from their mempool and add them to a new block that they mine. If successful, the new block, and the transactions in it are added to the blockchain.
Approximately every ten minutes, a new block is added to the blockchain. The block can contain two or three thousand transactions. So having thousands of transactions accumulating ought to be normal.
So the only way to move transactions from mempool to blockchain are to wait for them to be mined by a miner.
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answered Feb 23, 2023 at 15:38
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You should clarify. Further. What do you mean by facilitate? Simply operating a Bitcoin core node that allows incoming connections does facilitate the process. How are you measuring the rate of transactions passing through? Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 15:42
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It might be that you are not yet well connected to peers. It might be that your configuration of Bitcoin-core, PC, router or firewall is blocking some connections. Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 15:47
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I just ran netstat and can see active connections. I enabled the default bitcoin port 8333 to allow for connections. I can't think of anything else that might be inhibiting me from connecting to peers. Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 15:52
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1What concerns me is that your comments don't seem to be about the "way to commit transactions from mempool to blockchain" in your question title. You seem to be concerned that your node may not be functioning as a full-node properly. Which is a different question really. Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 16:08
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“That ought to be normal, depending on what time period is involved.” > In fact, I’d be shocked if there were any transactions at all that were both in the mempool and in the blockchain. ;)– Murch ♦Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 18:38