0xB10C – Tracepoints and monitoring the Bitcoin network
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We catch up with 0xB10C about monitoring pools and tracing code execution in nodes. Our topics: - What he's been up to since the residency (1:05) - Monitoring the mempool (2:52) - Mempool Observer - Monitoring Mining pools (4:27) - MiningPool Observer - Mining pools not mining P2TR at Taproot activation (5:24) - Why monitor the network? (8:20) - Template discrepancies between pools and monitor (9:25) - User-space Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) (11:07) - Tracing Readme - Using tracepoints to simulate coin selection (13:36) - Why are tracepoints in production code? (14:38) - Using tracepoints for P2P monitoring (17:05) - Using tracepoints to review PRs (22:00) - Benchmarking Erlay with USDT (22:42) Other resources: - TransactionFee.info Thanks to Emily Kee for the sound engineering.