What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to first conceptually understand how a user interacts with the Bitcoin network in the first place. Bitcoin is a database, and a network to ...

The latest Bitcoin Core update drops the minimum relay fee 10-fold to 0.1 sat/vB, enabling cheaper transactions while ...

The Raspberry Pi—a credit card-sized, single-board PC renowned for its affordability and flexibility—offers a super platform for hosting a Bitcoin node. With its low strength consumption, silent ...

Bitcoin light clients are now able to sync to the tip of the blockchain nearly instantly, thanks to a new development enabled by bitcoin startup ZeroSync and their work in zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Bitcoin Core developer Jimmy Song has criticized the Taproot upgrade for overlooking the “social attack surface” that allowed ...

Bitcoin (BTC) is testing a key zone amid a fall in the level of the crypto king’s volatility, according to analytics platform ...

The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

The lone miner earned 3.13 BTC mining block 913,632, marking the second independent mining success on the Bitcoin blockchain ...

Bitcoin nodes are what makes up the Bitcoin network, but without using them to verify your economic activity, they don't impact consensus. What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to ...