The Mining Shop Blog Posts & Articles

Bitcoin Core rpcbind guide covering interface selection, IPv4 and IPv6, containers, rpcallowip, firewalls, mining paths and exposure verification.

Learn how Ethereum uncle rewards works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Ethereum node can support Ethash miners.

Bitcoin Core rpcauth guide covering salted password verifiers, generation, configuration, transport security, rotation, permissions and mining RPC tests.

Bitcoin Core rpcallowip guide covering source allow-lists, authentication, proxies, IPv6, firewalls, mining RPC exposure and controlled access tests.

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

Bitcoin Core 0.12 pruning guide covering wallet support, retained blocks, rescans, indexes, backups, mining nodes and reversible deployment tests.

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

Bitcoin Core minrelaytxfee guide covering relay admission, historical units, dust coupling, mining differences, wallet effects and controlled policy tests.

Bitcoin Core mempoolexpiry guide covering age-based removal, rebroadcast expectations, wallet and mining effects, persistence and safe retention testing.

Bitcoin Core maxuploadtarget guide covering the 24-hour outbound target, historical blocks, exemptions, monitoring, mining and safe bandwidth tests.

Bitcoin Core maxmempool guide covering memory limits, package eviction, rolling minimum fees, mining effects, monitoring and safe capacity tests.

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