While blockchain networks are often credited with transparency and security, behind every confirmed and secure transaction is a hidden phase where everything is happening behind the scenes. This phase ...

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 ...

Much of the discussion about Bitcoin technology lately revolves around various soft-fork consensus changes to the Bitcoin protocol including new opcodes or sighashes or around layer 2 technologies ...

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 ...