Bitcoin Core and Node Operations Articles

Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 guide covering wallet mempool rejection, compact-block fixes, chainwork IBD, RPC serialization, fee estimates and safe rollout.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 guide covering SegWit activation parameters, NULLDUMMY, miner signalling, compact-block support, platform changes and rollback.

Bitcoin Core reindex-chainstate guide covering its 0.13 introduction, two-phase reindexing, block-index reuse, UTXO rebuilding, pruning and recovery.

Bitcoin compact-block guide covering BIP 152 short IDs, reconstruction, missing transactions, high-bandwidth peers, policy alignment and mining monitoring.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 guide covering compact blocks, HD wallets, SegWit preparation, ancestor mining, reindex-chainstate and safe historical upgrades.

Learn how Bitcoin FIBRE mining relay works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin node can support SHA-256 miners.

Learn how Bitcoin node latency monitoring works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin node can support SHA-256 miners.

Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 guide covering CSV soft-fork deployment, miner implications, upgrade and downgrade steps, wallet fixes and rollback evidence.

Bitcoin Core Tor guide covering proxy routing, automatic onion services, stream isolation, DNS, clearnet leaks, mining latency and verification.

Bitcoin testnet guide covering public-network behaviour, worthless coins, resets, peer risks, privacy, mining differences and safe application testing.

Bitcoin Core wallet encryption guide covering passphrases, timed unlocks, keypool refresh, backups, RPC exposure, process memory and recovery tests.

Bitcoin Core wallet backups made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.