The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

Learn how three-phase ASIC load balancing works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

BIP 156 guide covering its closed stem-and-fluff transaction routing, epoch paths, embargo recovery, graph attacks, privacy limits and deployment status.

BIP 157 and 158 compact block filters explained: understand client-side matching, Golomb-coded sets, filter headers and privacy trade-offs.

Compare a Bitcoin chain split vs hard fork, including temporary forks, incompatible rule sets, replay concerns, pool failover and miner revenue risk.

BIP 159 pruned nodes made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Learn how single-phase versus three-phase mining works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how verify ASIC firmware checksum works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 guide covering RPC argument compatibility, SegWit mining templates, UTXO memory accounting, dbcache sizing and safe rollout.

BIP 149 guide covering its closed second SegWit deployment, guaranteed lock-in, BIP 8 framing, NODE_UAWITNESS, contingency dates and historical outcome.

BIP 154 guide covering its closed peer-specified proof-of-work slots, anti-DoS goals, algorithm negotiation, hardware fairness, Sybil limits and testing.

BIP 135 guide covering its closed configurable signalling windows, thresholds, lock-in periods, BIP 9 relationship, governance limits and testing.

BIP 199 guide covering its closed HTLC template, hash preimages, buyer refunds, absolute and relative timeouts, branch validation and operational risks.