Bitcoin has a current market capitalization of roughly $1.9 trillion and surpassed silver's $1.6 trillion market cap in 2024. More than $19 trillion in transactions settled over the Bitcoin network in ...

Bitcoin is a digital currency which operates free of any central control or the oversight of banks or governments. Instead it ...

Bitcoin blocks record validated transactions every 10 minutes across the decentralized blockchain. SegWit allows blocks to fit more data, improving transaction throughput without changing the base ...

Key takeawaysBitcoin transactions may take from one minute to several hours to confirm, depending on the network’s congestion ...

Learn how to resolve stuck Bitcoin transactions in 2025 with this comprehensive step-by-step guide, including using RBF, CPFP and mining pools. Bitcoin transactions may take from one minute to several ...

Bitcoin is often praised as a long-term savings technology, but its role as a medium of exchange is just as important—especially for businesses. From local cafés to large corporations, more merchants ...

In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin ...

There have been various attempts to launch a digital currency over the years, but Bitcoin was the first to gain significant traction. After publishing a whitepaper in October 2008 outlining the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. As we all know by now, the real value of bitcoin comes from ...