Peter Todd Joins MARA to Lead Private Mempool Slipstream
Peter Todd has taken over maintenance of MARA Foundation’s Slipstream service, with one notice saying the role covers both development and operation. A second notice describes Slipstream as a private mempool service that sends transactions to MARA Pool outside Bitcoin’s public peer-to-peer network.
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What it means
Users and miners that watch Bitcoin transaction routing will notice that Slipstream now has a named maintainer at MARA Foundation. The service sits outside Bitcoin’s public peer-to-peer network, so the change is visible in how some transactions are handled rather than in the network rules themselves.
In practice, the service can now be developed and operated under one person’s remit, while its described function of redirecting transactions to MARA Pool remains the same. What changes is the person responsible for it, not the existence of the private mempool service itself.
Market reaction i
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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