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.
Not exact matches
However, it does complicate creating newer
transactions depending on
unconfirmed transactions: New
transactions need to
know the
transaction identifier they rely on.
Eventually all computers on the network
know about this payment, and it appears on screens everywhere in the world as an «
unconfirmed transaction».
Unconfirmed Transactions Reach ATH It is well -
known that the Bitcoin network is currently running at full capacity.
Instead, SegWit was primarily designed to resolve a long - standing issue within the Bitcoin network
known as
transaction malleability, where a bug in the way a
transaction's identifier (txid) was calculated meant that small modifications to an
unconfirmed transaction would change its txid, but not its content.