Full nodes maintain the entire blockchain, ensuring maximum security and transaction integrity. Light nodes offer fast, resource-efficient access to Bitcoin, ideal for mobile and low-power devices.

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 ...

More than half of Bitcoin’s global mining network runs on renewable energy — and much of it comes from sources that would otherwise go unused. “More than half of the network is using some type of ...

Bittensor pitches TAO as a Bitcoin-like answer to centralized AI, but decentralization and execution remain open questions.