Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd to Oversee MARA's Private Mempool Service

Veteran Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd has joined the MARA Foundation as lead maintainer of Slipstream, the organization’s private Bitcoin mempool service for submitting transactions directly to MARA Pool. Slipstream allows users to bypass Bitcoin’s public peer-to-peer relay network and send transactions straight to MARA’s mining pool. The service has become known for handling transactions that fall outside standard Bitcoin relay policies, including large Ordinals inscriptions and certain transaction formats used in BitVM-related experiments. More recently, MARA—a prominent, publicly traded bitcoin mining firm —has positioned Slipstream as infrastructure for Bitcoin research and development.

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