Nov 10, 2020

Transaction Lifecycle

Ideal Life cycle

  1. Click send
  2. Wait a bit
  3. Mined

Real Life cycle

  1. Click send
  2. Signed locally
  3. Sent to connected Ethereum node
  4. Propagated via P2P network (mempool)
  5. Selected by miner
  6. Mined
  7. (Optional) Reorged and reinserted into the mempool

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