How Can a Pool Operator’s Decision on Transaction Selection Affect Network Congestion?
A pool operator's decision on which transactions to include in a block is based on maximizing profit, which means prioritizing the highest-fee transactions. By consistently selecting only high-fee transactions, they effectively ignore lower-fee transactions, contributing to the buildup of the mempool and exacerbating network congestion for users unwilling or unable to pay high fees.
Glossar
Transaction Selection Process
Process ⎊ The transaction selection process is the critical operational step where a miner or validator chooses a subset of pending transactions from the mempool to be included in the block they are constructing.
Transaction Selection
Criterion ⎊ Transaction selection is the critical process where a block producer, such as a miner or validator, chooses a subset of pending transactions from the mempool to include in the next canonical block.