The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

Bitcoin Core incrementalrelayfee guide covering BIP 125 bandwidth cost, mempool eviction, separation from minrelaytxfee and safe policy testing.

BIP 104 guide covering its closed hard-fork block-size adjustment, 75% target, retarget periods, miner incentives, oscillation risks and deployment.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 guide covering wallet mempool rejection, compact-block fixes, chainwork IBD, RPC serialization, fee estimates and safe rollout.

BIP 90 Buried Deployments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Zclassic mining explained for beginners. Learn how Equihash proof of work, GPU memory, shielded transfers, pools and realistic electricity costs fit together.

Learn how Zcash full nodes for miners works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Zcash node can support Equihash miners.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 guide covering SegWit activation parameters, NULLDUMMY, miner signalling, compact-block support, platform changes and rollback.

Learn how UPS for mining nodes works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

BIP 115 guide covering its closed CHECKBLOCKATHEIGHT proposal, chain commitment, depth rule, script semantics, fork deployment and operational risks.

BIP 147 NULLDUMMY explained: see why CHECKMULTISIG consumes an extra stack item and how requiring it empty closes a malleability vector.

Bitcoin Core reindex-chainstate guide covering its 0.13 introduction, two-phase reindexing, block-index reuse, UTXO rebuilding, pruning and recovery.

Bitcoin compact-block guide covering BIP 152 short IDs, reconstruction, missing transactions, high-bandwidth peers, policy alignment and mining monitoring.