Bitcoin Optech: Waiting for Confirmation Special

This podcast is a compilation of previous podcast discussions about the Waiting for confirmation series on mempool and relay policy. Series coauthors Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gloria Zhao describe the concepts in the series, discuss with special guests, and take questions from the audience.

1. Why do we have a mempool? (0:50)

2. Incentives (13:10)

3. Bidding for block space (31:19)

4. Feerate estimation (47:27)

5. Policy for Protection of Node Resources (59:04)

6. Policy Consistency (1:09:47)

7. Network Resources (1:21:40)

8. Policy as an Interface (1:48:37)

9. Policy proposals (2:07:00)

10. Get Involved (2:29:15)