Clearing 2 week old transactions from mempool
Clearing 2 week old transactions from mempool I can see a lot of questions posted on Reddit similar to "My transaction is not confirmed for X days. What do I do?". The most common answer is "Transactions are cleared from mempool after 2 weeks". Can anybody please explain how it is technically possible? Say I broadcast a raw transaction through bitcoin-cli. A little later I can see it in My local mempool Blockexplorer.com Blockchain.info Transaction is not confirmed due to low fee for 2+ weeks. I check if transaction is still known to network. My local mempool. Transaction is not present. The reason might be not these 2 weeks, but rather my full 500mb pool where low-fee transactions are cleared due to limited space. Blockexplorer.com. Transaction is not present. They definitely have a bigger mempool. So 2 weeks might be the reason. Blockchain.info. Transaction is still known to the service. Probably not in mempool in terms of bitcoin, but somewhere in the...