Blockchain Mechanics
A Bitcoin dust threshold is a relay-policy detail, not a market price
Understand Bitcoin dust as a transaction-output policy concept, separating node relay rules, spending costs and the market price of bitcoin.
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Blockchain Mechanics
Blockchain Mechanics
Ethereum’s base fee and priority fee take different paths
Separate Ethereum’s base fee from the validator priority fee and read a transaction’s gas calculation without mistaking fee caps for final cost.
Blockchain Mechanics
A Blockchain Reorganisation Can Change Which Block Contains a Transaction
Understand how a chain reorganisation can change recent transaction inclusion, and why applications track block identity as well as transaction hashes.
Blockchain Mechanics
Chain ID Helps Keep an Ethereum Transaction on Its Intended Network
Ethereum chain IDs help distinguish transaction signing contexts. They are different from token symbols and do not prove a network is trustworthy.
Blockchain Mechanics
A Confirmation Count Is Not the Same as Finality on Every Blockchain
Distinguish transaction inclusion, confirmations, network finality and an exchange’s crediting policy before interpreting a blockchain status display.