The number of transactions on the Bitcoin network has steadily increased over the years. This means more blocks are filling up. And as not all transactions can be included in the blockchain straight ...

On February 22 the transaction queue for the Bitcoin network, otherwise known as the mempool, reached its all-time-high. During peak hours of the day, over 100,000 transactions were unconfirmed, and ...

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 ...