bitcoin-cli getrawmempool true only lists a transaction's parents in the depends field. This change adds a spentby field to the json response, which lists the transaction's children in the mempool. Currently the only way to find child transactions is to use getrawmempool or make another call to getmempooldescendants and search the response for transactions that list the parent_txid in the depends list, which is inefficient. This change allows direct lookup of children. Example Output "9a9b5733c0d89f207908cfa3fe17809bee71f629aa095c9f8754524e29e98ba4": { ...other geterawmempool data... "wtxid": "9a9b5733c0d89f207908cfa3fe17809bee71f629aa095c9f8754524e29e98ba4", "depends": [ "bdd92851d5766a42aeb62af667bb422a116cab4e032bba5e3dd6efe5b4b40aa0" ], "spentby": [ "dc5d3ec388a9121421208738a041ac30a22163bc2e17758f2275b6c51a15ba7b" ] },
Backport of core PR12479
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12479/files