Mempool News

Three and a half years after the activation of SegWit, adoption of the space-saving transaction format is still far from ideal.

While the number of Bitcoin transactions that can fit in a block remains the same, demand on the network is leading to rising transaction costs.

Hash rate has also tumbled on the Bitcoin network.

The average Bitcoin fee has fallen by nearly 54% over the last five days, but some believe network congestion could push users to altcoins.

Bitcoin survived last week’s halving, but it’s only a matter of time before BTC miners flee, say “death spiralists.” Are they right?

Does the sluggishness of Bitcoin network support the ‘death spiral’ scenario described by a VC?

Major blockchain data supplier Blockchain.​com apparently experienced a system glitch as its Bitcoin mempool tracker briefly dropped to zero.

This past weekend, Bitcoin’s blockchain mempool was at its highest level since January 2018.

With the daily trading volume of Bitcoin at an all-time high, the mempool of the Bitcoin Blockchain has started to expand again.

A drop in Bitcoin’s mempool size is welcome news for anyone using the network regularly, a sign that processing speeds are improving.

For two days, the size of the Bitcoin mempool remained at the 100 MBs region, which meant that many transactions were left unconfirmed and weren’t broadcasted to the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin’s unprocessed transaction pool size spiked again last week, prompting fears the network is nearing operational capacity.