
0xB10C – Tracepoints and monitoring the Bitcoin network
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We catch up with 0xB10C about monitoring pools and tracing code execution in nodes.
Our topics:
- What he's been up to since the residency (1:05)
- Monitoring the mempool (2:52)
- Monitoring Mining pools (4:27)
- 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)
- 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)
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Thanks to Emily Kee for the sound engineering.
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