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 ...

So mempool.space recently added features to spot Runes and Ordinals transactions, and Bitcoin monetary maximalists totally lost it. As a Bitcoiner and observer of Bitcoin culture, this whole drama ...

A look at the implications and consequences of the existence of private mempools on Bitcoin as an overall system. In the last Mempool article, I went through the dynamics of transaction propagation ...