Bitcoin Core Articles

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

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

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

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

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 guide covering compact blocks, HD wallets, SegWit preparation, ancestor mining, reindex-chainstate and safe historical upgrades.

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

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

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.

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