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Going to leave this in the icebox for now and we can evaluate if we need it. Once the app grows, it will probably be nice to test the changes in a live environment before merging.

The Go API should contain an endpoint that can be POST'ed to to persist mempool data in a postgres database.

Points for clarification:

• Does this endpoint need to be secured in any way? (maybe a simple basic auth via username password)
• How should we store this data? Postgres json type? Just persist raw response or massage data somehow?

We need to be able to hit the API from the client so CORS!!!!

This is meant to cover setting up the initial deployment workflow. We can start by getting a docker image setup with a simple Go based web app and deploying it somewhere.

It is up to the discretion of miners as to what transactions to include in a block, however, I believe the norm is to include as many transactions as possible ordered by fee rate. This issue explores the concept further.

Instead of getting snapshot of entire mempool and taking diffs, connect as a peer and collect transactions directly:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/48363/is-it-possible-to-read-every-transaction-my-node-relays
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/48350/making-peer-connection-in-python/48395#48395

This is a snap to do, but again it will be super useful to have tests running and deploying for us

While memcool is so cool, I'm not sure it adequately describes the goal of this app. We should at some point discuss renaming this app (at least for what we present to the public).

Maybe we rename namespaces, docker images, etc....

Or we just call bitkit project memcool internally 🤷‍♂️

Going to add initial database schema with some form of Go based migration tool. This should include running migrations on deployment (including a production instance of postgres)

We should get the deploy workflow figured sooner than later. I'm looking at Amazon ECS and Digital Ocean. Ideally something that is easy to deploy to from ci