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  <p>Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger
  number of orphan tx</p>
</blockquote>

<p>What kind of benefit/profit/etc can gain the community by the increased mempool for orphan transactions on one node? Literally, none.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>or am I just wasting memory?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This is your donation to the network.</p>

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amaclin
<p>I'm still learning how all of this stuff works. I'm running a v0.15.1 full node. While I was watching the debug output, I noticed that orphan tx were being discarded because the maximum had been reached. To see what would happen, I restarted bitcoind with maxorphantx=1024.</p>

<p>Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger number of orphan tx or am I just wasting memory?</p>

<p>Note: I forgot to mention that my copy of the blockchain is up to date. The orphans I'm seeing aren't because I'm missing blocks.</p>

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Is there any benefit to increasing the maximum orphan tx in bitcoind?
EvilDave
# Is there any benefit to increasing the maximum orphan tx in bitcoind?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-15)

I'm still learning how all of this stuff works. I'm running a v0.15.1 full node. While I was watching the debug output, I noticed that orphan tx were being discarded because the maximum had been reached. To see what would happen, I restarted bitcoind with maxorphantx=1024.

Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger number of orphan tx or am I just wasting memory?

Note: I forgot to mention that my copy of the blockchain is up to date. The orphans I'm seeing aren't because I'm missing blocks.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-16. Score: 1

> Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger
> number of orphan tx

What kind of benefit/profit/etc can gain the community by the increased mempool for orphan transactions on one node? Literally, none.

> or am I just wasting memory?

This is your donation to the network.


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