Slow Tx Gossip #274
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Coreth has as bug where transactions slow down as they are gossiped through the network. Nodes only gossip a tx if they haven't heard of it before, so once a majority of nodes hear of a transaction less and less nodes are willing to gossip the transaction. In the case that we gossip to a node that already knows of a transaction, it "aborbs" the gossip and doesn't forward it. This results in nodes potentially never even hearing about some transactions until a regossip cycle is hit.
We can use a pull-based strategy to make txs propagate exponentially fast instead of exponentially slowly by constantly polling peers for new txs instead of only pushing a tx when we haven't heard of it before.