On-chain data shows that there are over 260,000 unconfirmed transactions on the bitcoin blockchain, which in turn drives up the price to complete a transaction. Memory usage has also surged past the ...

When blockchain demand surges, network congestion occurs, leaving transfers stuck in the mempool. This guide explores how congestion affects blockchain transactions, leading to slower confirmations, ...

Bitcoin transactions are designed to be publicly searchable, programmatically confirmed by miners and immutable once embedded on the blockchain. BTC transactions contain three pieces of essential data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo is a Venezuelan covering Bitcoin news since 2017. There are now more than 4,6 million inscriptions in the Bitcoin ...

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 ...