Tagged: mempool
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BitcoinThe Mempool Is Empty and Nobody Noticed
Two years ago, Bitcoin's mempool was a battleground. JPEGs and memecoin inscriptions paid hundreds of sats per vbyte to fight for confirmation. Blocks cleared at a fraction of that rate today, and nobody is talking about it. The quiet fee environment is not a sign of health. It is a structural problem arriving on schedule.
Bitcoin847 Pull Requests, Zero Headlines: Inside Bitcoin Core 28
While the market obsesses over ETFs and price targets, Bitcoin Core developers shipped major upgrades to transaction relay, mempool policy, and P2P networking. These changes don't move the price today. They determine whether Bitcoin works in 2036.