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 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 ...

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 ...

The Bitcoin blockchain lacks meaningful on-chain activity, even as its native token, bitcoin BTC $95,307.89, trades near a record per-unit price. That's according to mempool – a holding area for ...

The Bitcoin blockchain is showing signs of declining user activity, despite the coin trading close to all-time highs. Bitcoin is changing hands slightly under $109,000, 2.7% less than its all-time ...

A look at the implications and consequences of the existence of private mempools on Bitcoin as an overall system. In the last Mempool article, I went through the dynamics of transaction propagation ...