The rapid growth of crypto assets raises important questions about their cross-border usage. To gain a better understanding of cross-border Bitcoin flows, we use raw data covering both on-chain (on ...

A Bitcoin node is a computer that runs Bitcoin software to validate and relay transactions across the network. Like servers in a traditional financial system, nodes store a complete copy of the ...

As Bitcoin continues to grow in popularity, its original design, which supports only seven transactions per second, often struggles with scalability. This leads to higher fees and slower transaction ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Blockchain technology is democratizing space by enabling decentralized ownership and governance, shifting control from traditional ...

Inscriptions are a novel feature that allows users to permanently store data, such as text, images, or even files directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. Introduced through the Ordinals protocol by ...

Fefe Demeny explains what a blockchain is, a digital ledger that has revolutionized the world of finance due to its decentralized model. Imagine a notebook that everyone in the world can see but no ...

Nodes are an essential component of all computer networks. In computation, a node is an electronic device that is part of a network and can create, receive or transfer data through a transmission ...

Ethereum offers both a digital asset and blockchain ecosystem, unlike Bitcoin. Bitcoin's network effect and trillion-dollar market value make it difficult for new challengers to compete. Both Bitcoin ...