The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

Avalon home miners comparison made simple. Compare performance, power, cooling, noise and practical risks before choosing or operating mining hardware.

Kaspa Crescendo mining made simple. Compare performance, power, cooling, noise and practical risks before choosing or operating mining hardware.

What is a satoshi? Learn the exact Bitcoin unit relationship, how wallets display sats, where rounding causes mistakes and what Draft BIP 172 proposes.

Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? Review measured electricity, carbon, water, e-waste and grid effects, plus the limits of common Bitcoin mining claims.

ASIC firmware update checklist: roll out ASIC firmware safely with exact inventory, verified files, backups, stable power, canary groups, 24-hour observation.

Home Bitcoin mining: A home ASIC needs a suitable dedicated circuit, competent electrical assessment and a safe route for continuous heat and noise.

BIP 177 guide to the Draft proposal for integer base-unit bitcoin displays, unchanged BTC meaning and supply, conversion rules, migration risks and testing.

Algorithm locked ASIC price sensitivity: model algorithm-locked ASIC price sensitivity across coin price, network hashrate, pool support, settlement liquidity.

Bitcoin Core 29 getdescriptoractivity guide covering block lists, descriptor ranges, mempool inclusion, receive and spend events, privacy and safe reconciliation.

Bitcoin Core 29.0 guide covering UPnP removal, PCP/NAT-PMP, onion ports, orphan-parent retrieval, ephemeral dust, package policy and platform support.

ASIC firmware fees: Use the current documented fee method for the exact firmware and account; do not copy a percentage from an old review.

BIP 53 guide to the Draft soft-fork proposal, witness-stripped 64-byte transactions, Merkle ambiguity, SPV risk, compatibility and activation testing.