This has also been posted on Bitcointalk forum: 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5373341.msg58539261#msg58539261 I have 
republished it here hoping someone more knowledgeable can post some insight 
about this.
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It appears that the ZeroMQ topic I'm listening to, "rawtx", not only emits a 
raw transaction when it appears on the mempool, but once it's already confirmed 
too.

This messes with my software, causing it to add txids, addresses, etc. a second 
time inside arrays (this means that the same transaction is received twice in 
total).

Array de-duping is not a viable solution long-term (because the array will 
quickly grow to be big eventually and then this has to happen every time a new 
element is added), so I'm trying to nip the problem from the source by 
instructing Core to only publish unconfirmed bitcoin transactions.

According to 
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/52848/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-bitcoin-daemon-to-only-broadcast-unconfirmed-tra
 , it is not possible to configure this from a configuration or command-line 
option. The source code must directly be edited. But since the codebase has 
changed greatly, the proposed solution no longer works.

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So basically, I know that something inside src/zmq/zmqnotificationinterface.cpp 
needs to be patched, but I'm not sure which function, or how to do it. Because 
I only need unconfirmed transactions to be published on ZeroMQ rawtx and not 
confirmed ones, it's one of the following functions that I need to patch for my 
own build:

CZMQNotificationInterface::TransactionRemovedFromMempool
void CZMQNotificationInterface::BlockDisconnected

Both of these call NotifyTransaction() method which I assume fires a message on 
"rawtx" channel.

In the Stack Exchange question I linked above, Jonas Schnelli suggested adding 
an `if (!pblock)` check, but that was several years ago and the function he was 
referencing no longer exists.

But I still wonder if the pblock check is still applicable in the present day 
(i.e. if it's indicating a block the transaction is inside).

- Ali Sherief
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