Network, Relay & Client Sync • Estimated 65m

Transaction Relay (inv/getdata)

protocol.transaction-relay-inv-getdata

How peers announce and request transactions using inv/getdata before full tx relay.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin P2P Networking Reference (article) Message-level behavior for inventory announcements and requests.
• Bitcoin Dev Network: Wire Protocol (article) Accessible walkthrough of Bitcoin message framing and relay flow.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: Transaction Tracking (article) How Core tracks transaction knowledge and relay state.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Bitcoin P2P Message Flow
• Transaction Lifecycle

Direct dependents (4)

• Dandelion Transaction Propagation
• Erlay Transaction Relay
• V2 P2P Transport (BIP324)
• WTXID Relay (BIP 339)

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