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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bitcoin Runes are a new protocol introduced in 2024 as a more efficient successor to Bitcoin Ordinals, aimed at enabling NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain. Runes offer greater flexibility than Ordinals ...

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 ...

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

BRC-20 Tokens: A New Token Standard on Bitcoin – How They Work, Their Limitations, and the Future of Tokenization with Runes. BRC-20 tokens are an experimental and inefficient token standard designed ...

One task where AI tools have proven to be particularly superhuman is analyzing vast troves of data to find patterns that humans can't see, or automating and accelerating the discovery of those we can.

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 ...