Bitcoin transactions require multiple confirmations to ensure security, with most considered final after six confirmations. Increasing network congestion, block size limits and transaction fees have ...

The Bitcoin transaction mempool is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions that are waiting for a miner to add them to a new block. Every Bitcoin node runs a mempool and works to check ...

The minimum fees required for a Bitcoin transaction have been slashed by 90%. This news comes amid the debates over what the asset is best suited for. Some believe it is better for everyday payments, ...

A Bitcoin node is a computer that runs Bitcoin software to validate and relay transactions across the network. Like servers in a traditional financial system, nodes store a complete copy of the ...

Proton, the Swiss company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has released a beta version of the newest offering in its suite of products that help to preserve online privacy — Proton Wallet. The wallet ...

Bitcoin technology is impressive for just how many fundamental problems with money it solves. One advantage of bitcoin that is often touted is that it provides for final settlement of transactions.

As Bitcoin continues to grow in popularity, its original design, which supports only seven transactions per second, often struggles with scalability. This leads to higher fees and slower transaction ...

Bitcoin Cash is considered a faster and cheaper alternative to Bitcoin and was created in 2017 after Bitcoin experienced a hard fork in its blockchain. Here’s how Bitcoin Cash came to be and what you ...