Bitcoin transactions require multiple confirmations to ensure security, with most considered final after six confirmations. Increasing network congestion, block size limits and transaction fees have ...

The Bitcoin transaction mempool is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions that are waiting for a miner to add them to a new block. Every Bitcoin node runs a mempool and works to check ...

Bitcoin blocks record validated transactions every 10 minutes across the decentralized blockchain. SegWit allows blocks to fit more data, improving transaction throughput without changing the base ...

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 ...