The mempool is Bitcoin’s waiting room: unconfirmed transactions queued for miners. This guide explains how fees, priority and network congestion shape confirmation times and costs, and what users can do.
Double spending occurs when a digital coin is spent twice; this overview explains how Bitcoin prevents it using cryptographic verification, consensus rules and transaction confirmations.
Understanding Bitcoin’s mempool demystifies how transactions wait for confirmation, how fees and prioritization work, and why congestion affects speed and cost-essential for informed users and developers.
Double spend is when a digital currency is spent twice. This piece explains how it happens, why blockchain prevents it, common attack methods, and defenses like confirmations and consensus.