This news comes at a particularly bad time for the world's first cryptocurrency as the backlog of unconfirmed transactions known
as the mempool just does not want to clear.
Bitcoin network's transaction queue termed
as mempool is already backed up by 139000 transactions which are waiting to get confirmed.
The following chart shows the number of transactions in the queue, known
as the mempool.
Not exact matches
The bitcoin
mempool, an mixture dimension of all pending transactions ready to be mined, additionally noticed a noticeable discount in dimension
as soon
as the exchanges had efficiently migrated their infrastructure over to SegWit.
Just keep your eyes on the
mempool chart, which
as my 4 year old daughter pointed out, oddly resembles the cover of a Dr. Seuss book.
The community celebrated yesterday
as the bitcoin
mempool was cleared for the first time in months.
At 12.5 % hash power, the
mempool on Bitcoin Cash will clear at about the same rate
as bitcoin.
As for transaction approvals, even with low hashing power, we can expect the Bitcoin Cash
mempool to be relatively empty since the network's blocks will be relatively big.
As a temporary measure, restarting bitcoin will clear the
mempool and speed performance, but nodes constantly send each other unconfirmed transactions and the memory may eventually fill again.
The Bitcoin transaction memory pool aka the
mempool has been growing in size
as Bitcoin has continued to grow in popularity.
This is not necessary,
as small transactions can be confirmed when they hit
mempool, you only need to wait confirmations if you are unsure about a buyer (applications can be built for risk assessment of the incoming wallet) or if the amount is too large.
The bitcoin cash
mempool is cleared consistently
as mentioned above, and even when transaction congestion adds up a mined BCH block usually clears the entire backlog.
The second major growth spurt came around the end of December 2017 when the bitcoin
mempool had been clogged up (
as above) for the better part of a month and there was growing dissatisfaction with bitcoin's yet - to - be-released lightning network.
This is a basic blockchain explorer, which gives you information for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash such
as block feed,
mempool size, and hashrate distribution.
Currently,
as shown by the large size of the bitcoin
mempool, the holding area of unconfirmed transactions, the Bitcoin network is congested, leading to high transaction fees and longer transaction verification periods.
«Litecoin is more scalable by nature and with bitcoins
mempool currently flooded with unconfirmed transactions Litecoin is looking much better than BTC
as a medium of exchange,» said Mato Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at eToro.
As the network's
mempool — the backlog of unprocessed transactions — continues to spike frequently, Bitcoin's major commentators and evangelists continue to argue over the future.
These growing block sizes are helping reduce the
mempool size; a source of untold amounts of debate among crypto enthusiasts, developers, and miners, given it poses
as a major roadblock against a societal adoption of Bitcoin.
Although only five percent of transactions are SegWit - enabled
as of now, the average block size has decreased from 1 MB to 0.86 and the size of the Bitcoin
mempool has decreased from 150 mln bytes to less than 10 mln bytes.