Over the weekend, the Bitcoin network came before a significant fork in the road. Elevated ordinals activity congested the blockchain to such an extent as to cause over 450,000 unconfirmed ...

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 ...

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 ...