Murch

I was attending a Bitcoin Core PR review club, and in the context of the wallet behavior changes that were discussed, participants were mentioning something called "waste metric". Can someone explain what that is, what […]

I’ve heard that faster blocks would cause mining to become more centralized. How do these things fit together?

Let’s say I wanted to extract {±amount, feerate} for all payments I’ve sent or received with my Bitcoin Core wallet. I would like to keep them in order, but slightly alter all resulting figures by […]

With Taproot on everyone’s lips, people have started discussing activation approaches. The debate currently seems to favor BIP8. Previous soft forks used BIP9. How are the two related and what are the differences between the […]

I’ve sent a transaction from blockchain.info, but accidentally included too little fee. What can I do to cancel the transaction or speed up the transaction’s confirmation? This is a complementary question to Why is my […]