The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

BIP 152 compact block relay explained for miners: learn short transaction IDs, reconstruction, missing-transaction requests and propagation risk.

Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 guide covering CSV soft-fork deployment, miner implications, upgrade and downgrade steps, wallet fixes and rollback evidence.

BIP 114 guide covering its closed MAST witness design, Merkle branches, privacy, script limits, consensus deployment and Taproot comparison.

BIP 151 guide covering its closed status, handshake, session keys, rekeying, traffic-analysis limits, BIP 150 dependency and BIP 324 replacement.

BIP 150 guide covering its closed status, BIP 151 dependency, pre-shared identities, mutual authentication, privacy goals and modern context.

Bitcoin Core Tor guide covering proxy routing, automatic onion services, stream isolation, DNS, clearnet leaks, mining latency and verification.

Bitcoin testnet guide covering public-network behaviour, worthless coins, resets, peer risks, privacy, mining differences and safe application testing.

Bitcoin regtest guide covering private chains, on-demand blocks, deterministic fixtures, consensus testing, wallet isolation and production-safe test design.

Bitcoin Core wallet encryption guide covering passphrases, timed unlocks, keypool refresh, backups, RPC exposure, process memory and recovery tests.

Bitcoin Core wallet backups made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core txindex guide covering arbitrary transaction lookup, storage and sync cost, pruning conflict, reindexing, application needs and recovery tests.

Bitcoin Core clean shutdown guide covering startup verification, SIGTERM, database flushing, supervisors, mining dependencies, interruption and recovery evidence.