A look at what the mempool is, how it functions, and why a healthy and open public mempool is important for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin blocks record validated transactions every 10 minutes across the decentralized blockchain. SegWit allows blocks to ...

a phenomenon that slows down the blockchain when the network gets cluttered with non-financial transactions, and mempool fragmentation. UTXO bloat is a documented side effect of Ordinals and ...

One idea is to encrypt Ethereum's public mempool — where transactions are sent before they're recorded permanently. Another involves making Ethereum transactions confidential through zero ...

Block explorers, because their entire service is displaying as complete a dataset about the blockchain and mempool as possible. Your average nodes only really need to be deep enough to contain the ...