When bitcoin transactions are made, I know that they are put into the mempool. After certain transactions are added to a block and that block gets verified, what happens to all the other transactions that did not meet that threshold? Do they just get rejected?
Add a comment
|
2 Answers
Do they just get rejected?
No, they will just wait for another block to be included in.
Note that transactions have a time to live in the mempool of 336 hours (configurable using the maxmempoolexpiry startup option).
answered Apr 24, 2020 at 7:33
Addition to darosior's answer:
Remember that there's no single mempool - every node maintains its own. Thus a miner can mine a transaction after a long time if it's still valid (its input not spent by another transaction.)
