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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Satflow, a newly launched decentralized exchange (DEX) focused on Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes trading, aims to address the long-standing issue of mempool sniping—a major problem that has frustrated ...

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 ...

The Lightning Network, a prominent scalability solution for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), is currently under intense scrutiny following a series of security vulnerabilities disclosed by Antoine Riard, an ...

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 ...

Is Tron founder Justin Sun good or bad for wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), the Ethereum token backed by bitcoin held in custody? It was a one-sided argument before – mostly bad. Now, there's a counterargument ...