What does it mean "in memory pool, broadcast through 5 nodes" ?

shorena

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Quote from: calkob on December 27, 2016, 09:34:14 AM

so is 5 nodes the minimum and it stops telling you anymore? like it wont say "broadcast through 39 nodes" or anything like that.

Your node can only know its direct neighbours, so its limited to show you how many of those it send the transaction to. I am also not 100% but I think you dont broadcast to all nodes.

calkob

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so is 5 nodes the minimum and it stops telling you anymore? like it wont say "broadcast through 39 nodes" or anything like that.

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legendary

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This means that your transaction has been broadcast to 5 nodes (or devices on the Bitcoin network), and is now in the mempool (or memory pool), where it sits waiting to be confirmed by a miner.

shorena

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Quote from: calkob on December 27, 2016, 07:46:25 AM

Does that mean that only 5 other nodes know about the transaction until it is confirmed in a block, or does the amount of nodes keep increasing until a mining node sees it?

You send a transactions to the nodes you are connected to. These will verify the transaction to make sure its according to (their specific) rules. If its not, they drop it. If the transaction is sound to them, they will relay it to all other nodes they are connected to. It usually takes a few seconds until a transaction is known to all (mining) nodes.

calkob

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Does that mean that only 5 other nodes know about the transaction until it is confirmed in a block, or does the amount of nodes keep increasing until a mining node sees it?

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