mempool-util

The goal of the project is to create tools for mempool analysis. Areas of inquiry include:

Mempool

• Retrospective block audit
  • How does the composition of the last confirmed block compare to our node's recent block template? If a discrepancy exists between expected and actual block composition, ask why.
• Fee reporting / estimation
  • emulate block assembly from raw mempool
  • track the spread between Core's historical estimator and our own near-term analysis
  • give context for rising/falling fee environment
• Cluster analysis
  • descendant tree depth

On chain stuff

• Taproot adoption
  • count p2tr outputs
  • patterns of tapscript composition
• Dust analysis
• Chainstate growth
• Peer survey & features signalling

Ideas for experimental writeups:

• Two flavors of research:
  • real-time mempool analysis, and the state of p2p
  • historical observation (replicable)

Disclaimer

Please note this is experimental software - there will be bugs.