ASIC Maintenance Articles

Learn how ASIC miner dust problems works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

BIP 49 guide covering purpose 49 derivation, nested SegWit scripts, extended-key versions, account discovery, migration and recovery testing.

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

BIP 142 SegWit addresses explained: review the closed Base58 design for native P2WPKH and P2WSH and why Bech32 became the deployed format.

BIP 140 normalized TXIDs explained: learn how the closed proposal removed signature scripts, introduced OP_CHECKSIGEX and tracked two identities.

BIP 47 Reusable Payment Codes made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 61 reject messages explained: understand codes, reasons, transaction or block hashes, privacy limits and why modern nodes may not send them.

BIP 38 encrypted private keys explained: understand 6P records, scrypt, EC-multiply mode, password risk, test vectors and safe recovery.

BIP 13 P2SH address format explained: understand Base58Check version bytes, script hashes, network validation and the relationship to BIP 16.