[bitcoin-dev] Mempool and Privacy

[alicexbt <alicexbt@protonmail.com>]

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Hi Bitcoin Developers,

Bitcoin knots has a config option to disallow address reuse in mempool: spkreuse=conflict or GUI -> Settings -> Options -> Mempool. I tried experimenting with it and running 2 nodes(signet) for which anyone can check 'getrawmempool' at a given time using:

GET /mempool?node=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.spkreuse.funContent-Type: application/json

Node 2 has 'spkreuse=conflict' saved in bitcoin_rw.conf and it will reject all transaction reusing addresses in mempool. I have tried testing it on signet and it works as expected. Replacement transactions are exceptions and ignored even if address appears twice in mempool. I could not find any issues however debug=mempool did not print logs that could be helpful to know which transactions are getting rejected in mempool for address re-use. So running 2 nodes and comparing mempool transactions.

What other things could affect privacy in mempool and not explored yet? I could think of 3:

- RBF policies
- Rebroadcasting mechanism- Different types of relay fee

This could be used by lot of bitcoin nodes, not sure about miners. I do not believe mempool policies only rely on miner incentives, minimum fee rate won't be be 1 sat/vbyte if that was the case. Even if its never used by lot of nodes and some miners, it was fun to play with and I like knots for providing such options.

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