You hear 'Bitcoin' and 'blockchain' used together so often, it's easy to think they're the same thing. They're not, but their relationship is the engine behind the entire cryptocurrency revolution.

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 ...

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

Visualizing the power of blockchain: a decentralized, transparent ledger redefining how digital transactions are recorded and verified. Let’s begin by considering a basic money transaction. When you ...

The Bitcoin transaction mempool is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions that are waiting for a miner to add them to a new block. Every Bitcoin node runs a mempool and works to check ...

Bitcoin’s blockchain allows users to embed hidden messages, functioning as both a financial ledger and a permanent message board. Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN field enables users to store short messages ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has begun publishing GDP data on public blockchains, including Bitcoin, marking yet another strong endorsement of BTC from the Trump administration. The U.S. government ...