The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

BIP 433 guide to Draft keyless Pay to Anchor outputs, CPFP fee bumping, standardness, ephemeral dust, TRUC anti-pinning and wallet safety.

BIP 89 guide to deployed Chain Code Delegation, per-spend BIP32 tweaks, multisig privacy, non-blinded and blinded signing, nonce safety and verification.

Verify a mining pool Bitcoin chain policy made simple. See how the network works, which hardware matters and what to check before using electricity.

Prepare an ASIC repair evidence pack with serial, condition, firmware, board status, logs, wall power, accepted work, photographs and safe fault history.

Bitcoin payout address for miner: create and verify a Bitcoin payout address for a miner, choose the correct network, protect keys, understand pool thresholds.

UK crypto airdrop tax: An airdrop received in return for, or in expectation of, a service can be income. Check the UK records and evidence to retain.

Calculate hydro ASIC water cooler sizing from measured kW, coolant flow, temperature rise, ambient design, pump head, redundancy and safe rejection margin.

ASIC Miner Noise Level made simple. Compare performance, power, cooling, noise and practical risks before choosing or operating mining hardware.

UK crypto lending tax: Determine whether the arrangement transfers beneficial ownership or merely places assets under a service.

ASIC hosting country risk assessment: choose an ASIC hosting country by assessing power law, political and currency risk, tax, customs, sanctions, ownership.

Plan on-site power for ASIC miners through generation capacity, private wire, DNO connection, metering, protection, fuel, emissions, contracts and uptime.

What is BIP-110? Learn what Bitcoin’s reduced-data soft-fork proposal restricted, why it was controversial and why it later closed.