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Oct 1, 2026

Peter Todd joins MARA as lead maintainer of Slipstream private mempool

Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd has become the head maintainer of Slipstream, MARA Foundation's private mempool service that allows transactions to bypass the public mempool and route directly to MARA Pool.

Oct 1, 2026·2 sources

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▪Bitcoin's relay policy consists of locally configurable rules that nodes impose on unconfirmed transactions before accepting them into mempools, which do not apply once a transaction is in a block
▪On October 1, 2026, MARA Foundation announced that longtime Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd joined the organization as the lead maintainer of Slipstream, a private mempool service
▪Peter Todd, who co-authored BIP 125 for opt-in replace-by-fee and created OpenTimestamps, launched Libre Relay in 2024 as a Bitcoin Core fork with relaxed transaction relay rules

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Blockchain technology Bitcoin protocol & upgrades Bitcoin Bitcoin mining Bitcoin privacy