Everyone who has used bitcoin has made use of the mempool, or a mempool. So what is the mempool? Well technically, there is no such thing as “the” mempool. Every individual full Bitcoin node operates ...

In the last Mempool article, I went through the dynamics of transaction propagation when different nodes on the network are running different mempool relay policies. In this piece I’ll be looking at ...

The Bitcoin mempool is a critical component of the Bitcoin network, acting as a waiting area for transactions before they are confirmed and added to the blockchain. Understanding its function is ...

A look at different relay policy filters, and why they have always been a standard part of a node's mempool. In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason ...

A look at the transaction propagation dynamics introduced when nodes on the public relay network implement different filter policy. In the last Mempool article, I went over the different kinds of ...

A solo Bitcoin miner processed a block on Thursday. The lucky miner took home 3.157 Bitcoins — worth $304,814 at today’s ...

A Bitcoin user accidentally paid 0.75 BTC in transaction fees after a panic-induced replace-by-fee error, highlighting the risks of manual transaction settings in crypto wallets. Update 1:17 pm UTC: ...

Bitcoin's memory pool suggests the chain isn't getting used much right now. The degree of the pool's utilization tends to portend either bullish or bearish times. Historically, it has been a smart ...