The Bitcoin blockchain lacks meaningful on-chain activity, even as its native token, bitcoin BTC $70,183.97, trades near a record per-unit price. That's according to mempool – a holding area for ...

How does network congestion affect blockchain transactions? Know why high demand causes slower confirmations, increased fees, ...

So mempool.space recently added features to spot Runes and Ordinals transactions, and Bitcoin monetary maximalists totally lost it. As a Bitcoiner and observer of Bitcoin culture, this whole drama ...

Imagine trying to drive through a city during rush hour. The streets are packed, and progress is slow. This congestion isn't limited to physical roads; it happens in digital realms too, especially in ...

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 ...

Satflow, a Bitcoin infrastructure firm focused on the Ordinals and Runes ecosystems, has introduced a decentralized exchange (DEX) for professional traders – positioned as a less-expensive alternative ...

Mainz, Germany, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shutter Network, a leading innovator in decentralized privacy solutions, has announced a proposal to implement a threshold-encrypted mempool on BNB ...

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 ...

Bitcoin explorer Mempool shared blockchain data that confirmed the funds were sent back on Sept. 15. On Sept. 10, the crypto community was puzzled after seeing a BTC transaction that paid around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. One of the philosophical innovations of Bitcoin is the ...

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 ...

Ethereum's $1 trillion security initiative aims to attract institutional capital, but the chain’s transparent mempool enables $1.8 billion in malicious MEV extraction. Earlier this year, the Ethereum ...