How Bitcoin Core works: LoadMempool() and DumpMempool()

Friday, June 21, 2019

I’ve talked about the LoadMempool() and DumpMempool() functions of Bitcoin Core at the 2019 Chaincode Labs Summer Residency seminar. These functions are used to write and read the mempool.dat file.

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