The mempool, a queue for unconfirmed transactions, has significantly fewer transactions compared to late 2024. Idle mempool suggests an impending crisis, according to one observer. One expert calls ...

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 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 ...

The mempool is essentially Bitcoin's transaction waiting room. Nodes collect pending transactions and hold them there until miners add them to a block. A consistently crowded mempool and high fees are ...

You send bitcoin. Your wallet flips to "pending." Ten minutes pass, then thirty, then an hour. Nothing. What's happening to your transaction while it waits? The answer is the bitcoin mempool. The ...

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 ...

Bitcoin infrastructure project Satflow has introduced a DEX for professional traders focused on the Ordinals and Runes ecosystems. The aim is to eliminate the practise of mempool sniping, the effects ...

A look at what the mempool is, how it functions, and why a healthy and open public mempool is important for Bitcoin. Everyone who has used bitcoin has made use of the mempool, or a mempool. So what is ...

For the uninitiated, Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) involves various techniques used by market actors to capture additional value by exploiting price inefficiencies in blockchain transactions. One ...

Bitcoin's memory pool suggests the chain isn't getting used much right now. The degree of the pool's utilization tends to portend either bullish or bearish times. Historically, it has been a smart ...

The Bitcoin mempool is a critical component of the Bitcoin network, acting as a waiting area for transactions before they are confirmed and added to the blockchain. Understanding its function is ...