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 ...

Timely Bitcoin transaction confirmations are crucial for users. However, the Bitcoin network can experience congestion due to the limited capacity of blocks and the proof-of-work mechanism that ...

A proposal to restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin has split prominent developers, miners, and industry leaders ahead of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shaping the future of banking with bitcoin. As bitcoin continues to reshape society, it brings with it the possibility of a world ...

A StarkWare researcher has proposed Quantum Safe Bitcoin, a hash-based scheme that can make bitcoin transactions resistant to quantum attacks today without changing the Bitcoin protocol. The method ...

Bit Gold was one of the earliest attempts at creating a decentralized virtual currency, proposed by blockchain pioneer Nick ...