The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

BIP 361 guide to the Draft informational post-quantum migration and legacy-signature sunset proposal, phases, prerequisites, risks and readiness planning.

Bitcoin Core 29.3 guide covering peer handling, sighash caching, witness stripping detection, anchor outputs, legacy wallet migration and mining overflow fixes.

BIP 392 guide to Draft sp() descriptors, spscan and spspend encodings, watch-only and full-wallet forms, key origins, recovery and validation.

Run a UK mining tariff cashflow stress test across unit rate, standing and capacity charges, VAT cash flow, reward, difficulty, downtime and fixed commitments.

BIP 376 guide to Draft PSBTv2 Silent Payment spend fields, updater, signer and finalizer roles, tweak verification, privacy and hardware-wallet safety.

BIP 128 guide to Draft timelock-recovery plan storage, presigned transaction pairs, relative delay, checksums, monitoring, cancellation and reorg safety.

UK crypto tax changes: practical UK guidance on HMRC treatment, records, valuations, allowable costs and the evidence to retain before filing or taking advice.

UK Crypto Tax Rates made simple. Check the UK rules, records, figures and evidence before filing a return or taking professional advice.

Is ASIC mining profitable? Build the answer from accepted hashrate, wall power, electricity tariff, pool fees, difficulty, downtime and UK records.

A practical UK crypto tax guide for ASIC miners covering income, disposals, 2026/27 CGT rates, records, reporting and the new cryptoasset data rules.

Bitcoin mining offer scam checks: check a Bitcoin mining hardware, hosting or cloud offer through seller identity, stock proof, serials, payment, contracts.

BIP 391 guide to the Closed Binary Output Descriptor format, PSBT-style maps, key references, birth metadata, validation and proposed replacement.