Bitcoin Mempool Workarounds Over Decade

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Bitcoin Core's mempool policy evolved over ten years to support Lightning and Layer 2s. Workarounds like transaction pinning and descendant limits were used to manage time-sensitive transactions. These solutions were temporary, shaped protocol design, and were eventually replaced.

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