0035 - Final - Standards - Aug. 16, 2012
BIP: 35 Layer: Peer Services Title: mempool message Author: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0035 Status: Final Type: Standards Track Created: 2012-08-16
Make a network node's transaction memory pool accessible via a new "mempool" message. Extend the existing "getdata" message behavior to permit accessing the transaction memory pool.
Several use cases make it desirable to expose a network node's transaction memory pool:
Note that existing implementations drop "inv" messages with a vector size > 50000.
Older clients remain 100% compatible and interoperable after this change.