We catch up with 0xB10C about monitoring pools and tracing code execution in nodes.

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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.