The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

BIP 129 BSMS guide covering its Complete status, coordinator and signer roles, two-round setup, key records, descriptor templates, proofs, encryption and tests.

Learn how Conflux mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Conflux node can support Octopus miners.

BIP 338 guide covering its Closed status, disabletx proposal, block-relay-only connections, version-message limits, negotiation, compatibility and successor context.

Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 guide covering peer discouragement, wallet notifications, PSBT UTXO compatibility, concurrent wallet loading, mining templates and rollback.

Learn how ASIC autotuning electricity cost works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Meter mining made simple. Learn how SHA-256 ASICs create MTR, how MTRG validators finalise transactions and which pool, wallet and profit checks matter.

Who chooses Bitcoin transactions in a mined block? Trace control across nodes, pool templates, Stratum V1, Stratum V2 and individual ASIC miners.

BIP 88 guide covering its Complete informational status, path constraints, alternatives, ranges, hardened markers, matching, parsing and wallet recovery safety.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 whitelist guide covering bloomfilter, noban, forcerelay, relay and mempool permissions, implicit defaults, CIDR scope and safe peer trust.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 rpcwhitelist guide covering per-user RPC allowlists, intersection rules, default-deny behaviour, authentication, testing and recovery.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 asmap guide covering experimental ASN mapping, peer bucketing, map provenance and freshness, mapped_as evidence, failure modes and rollback.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 generatetodescriptor guide covering regtest mining, block count, output descriptors, maxtries, hashes, permissions and deterministic tests.