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Network fee more than transaction?
When you move bitcoin from one address to another, a transaction fee is incurred, and that fee is paid to the miner that mines the block that your transaction is included in.
So when you eventually ...
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Is there an incentive to broadcast high fee transactions?
The vast majority of nodes on the Bitcoin network do not participate in mining. Wallets are usually either connected to a) a full node controlled by the wallet owner, b) a full node controlled by the ...
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If you have the required mining power, is it possible to mine your transaction in the next block without propagating it to the network?
To add to Vojtěch's answer, take the point of view of nodes validating blocks on the network. How would they enforce that a transaction must have been propagated before it's included in a block?
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Is there an incentive to broadcast high fee transactions?
What you're missing is that it doesn't matter. If Alice wants to send a message to Bill and Bill wants to hear the message from Alice, if both Alice and Bill are connected to the Internet, it doesn't ...
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If you have the required mining power, is it possible to mine your transaction in the next block without propagating it to the network?
Yes, since miners (pools) construct the blocks they mine, they can insert any valid transactions they want, including transactions that were never broadcasted to the wider network. They don't even ...
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How to remove a tx from local node mempool that's been removed from all other node
Default value for mempoolexpiry is 336. That is two weeks. Your value is 48 so that means that a transaction in your mempool for more than 2 days will be dropped. I consider that value to be ...
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Querying Non-Block Inclusion Evicted Mempool Transactions in Bitcoin Core >25.0
There is no RPC that can provide information about evicted/expired/conflicted mempool transactions.
The reason these mechanisms exists is because the mempool is limited in size (configurable how much)....
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Why can't I bumpfee the 25th tx in an unconfirmed chain?
In the mempool validation logic, the maximum chain size checks are performed without first removing the transaction to be replaced. That is, if there is a chain of 25 unconfirmed transactions such as:
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Is it possible to search for an address (rather than a transaction ID) in the bitcoin mempool?
Yes, it is possible. Block explorers such as mempool.space allow you to search by address, and they will show you all transactions involving that address, including unconfirmed ones.
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