Every node keeps its own mempool of valid transactions it has heard about and not yet seen mined. Miners select from it, generally favouring the highest fee per byte. There is no single canonical mempool — each node sees a slightly different set — which is why fee estimates vary between services.
Mempool
The waiting room of transactions that have been broadcast but not yet included in a block.
Also called: memory pool
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