<p>There is no such thing as "the bitcoin memory pool". Every node has its own memory pool; it is not shared across all nodes in the network. A node can certainly add a transaction to its own mempool without validating it, but you cannot force other nodes to add a transaction to its mempool without validation. In fact, you can't force a node to add a transaction to its mempool, nor can you force a node to accept anything.</p>

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<p>Is it possible to send a transaction to the bitcoin memory pool directly to have it mined without validating it?</p>

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How can you send a transaction directly to the memory pool?
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# How can you send a transaction directly to the memory pool?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-21)

Is it possible to send a transaction to the bitcoin memory pool directly to have it mined without validating it?

**Tags:** transactions, mempool, validation


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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-03-21. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

There is no such thing as "the bitcoin memory pool". Every node has its own memory pool; it is not shared across all nodes in the network. A node can certainly add a transaction to its own mempool without validating it, but you cannot force other nodes to add a transaction to its mempool without validation. In fact, you can't force a node to add a transaction to its mempool, nor can you force a node to accept anything.


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