Support is growing for a Bitcoin proposal that would temporarily limit the amount of data embedded in transactions, as a debate over network spam and node decentralization intensifies. Key Takeaways: ...

In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin Metaprotocols are secondary protocols embedded "inside" the Bitcoin protocol itself. They function independently, using Bitcoin as a host. Bitcoin is a database. This is an inescapable ...

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 ...