[2.x.x] Take age of txs into consideration when bucketing and sorting txs in txpool #2878
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Turns out we were not taking tx "age" into consideration when bucketing and sorting txs in the txpool.
Which means that at block capacity it is basically a lottery whether your tx will get included in the next block...
This PR fixes this.
We maintain txs in the pool in insertion order so we do not need to track "age" explicitly.
Bucket creation follows tx insertion order so we just need to take bucket creation order into consideration when sorting the buckets.
Existing behavior -
Revised behavior -
Our txpool bucketing and sorting logic still picks txs that maximize the overall block fee. But now also prioritizes txs that have been in the txpool the longest.