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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#28592: p2p: Increase tx relay rate

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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#28592: p2p: Increase tx relay rate

b81f37031c8f2ccad9346f1b65ee0f8083c44796 p2p: Increase tx relay rate (Anthony Towns)

Pull request description:

In the presence of smaller transactions on the network, blocks can sustain a higher relay rate than 7tx/second. In this event, the per-peer inventory queues can grow too large.

This commit bumps the rate up to 14 tx/s (for inbound peers), increasing the safety margin by a factor of 2.

Outbound peers continue to receive relayed transactions at 2.5x the rate of inbound peers, for a rate of 35tx/second.

ACKs for top commit:
sipa:
ACK b81f37031c8f2ccad9346f1b65ee0f8083c44796
achow101:
ACK b81f37031c8f2ccad9346f1b65ee0f8083c44796
darosior:
utACK b81f37031c8f2ccad9346f1b65ee0f8083c44796.
glozow:
utACK b81f37031c8f2ccad9346f1b65ee0f8083c44796

Tree-SHA512: 854ea0824d5f4c629f1dceb9ee61cc9226c8f0d4d26664737e68db917f65341d4800362ab55ed32673db920b2b59aa116b4cb9ee063367b2e43c94a904b41c08
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine Bitcoin Core merge that increases the rate at which transactions are relayed to peers (from 7 to 14 per second for inbound peers, and up to 35 for outbound peers). It is described by the project as a safety-margin improvement to keep per-peer inventory queues from growing too large when blocks contain many small transactions. The change is a single constant tweak in the P2P networking code and is not presented as a security fix.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat as a normal network-tuning change. Operators who monitor bandwidth or memory should note the higher relay ceiling; reviewers can verify the constant change in net_processing.cpp and confirm it matches the PR description.

Security signals we found

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P2P transaction relay rate-limit constant increased (7→14 tx/s inbound, 35 tx/s outbound)

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No changes to consensus, cryptography, wallet, RPC authentication, or network message parsing

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No CVE, security advisory, or bug-bounty attribution in commit message or PR description

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No fuzzer, sanitizer, or regression test added specifically for a vulnerability

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 2/5
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