Full nodes maintain the entire blockchain, ensuring maximum security and transaction integrity. Light nodes offer fast, resource-efficient access to Bitcoin, ideal for mobile and low-power devices.

Ocean’s mining pool currently accounts for somewhere around 2% of the overall network hashrate. More than 20% of the hashrate ...

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Bitcoin (BTCUSD) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have a new source of inflows, thanks to a regulatory change which allows investors in the cryptocurrency to convert their holdings into shares of Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has dropped 16% over the past month, triggered by a wave of selling from long-term "OG" holders to ...

In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin ...

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More than half of Bitcoin’s global mining network runs on renewable energy — and much of it comes from sources that would otherwise go unused. “More than half of the network is using some type of ...

Brian Armstrong, a co-founder and the CEO of Coinbase (COIN), said in an interview on Friday that Coinbase’s long-term goal is to be a financial “super app,” offering crypto alongside a broad range of ...

A look at different relay policy filters, and why they have always been a standard part of a node's mempool. In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason ...