Bitcoin Articles

Stress-test Bitcoin mining profitability using electricity, uptime, difficulty, pool fees and hardware cost before you buy an ASIC miner.

BIP 48 guide covering its Deployed status, m/48 hierarchy, hardened script type, nested and native SegWit branches, key sorting, recovery and compatibility.

BIP 350 guide covering its Deployed status, new checksum constant, Bech32 for v0, Bech32m for v1-v16, strict decoding, compatibility and test vectors.

Learn how Bitcoin Signet mining works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin node can support SHA-256 miners.

BIP 129 BSMS guide covering its Complete status, coordinator and signer roles, two-round setup, key records, descriptor templates, proofs, encryption and tests.

BIP 338 guide covering its Closed status, disabletx proposal, block-relay-only connections, version-message limits, negotiation, compatibility and successor context.

Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 guide covering peer discouragement, wallet notifications, PSBT UTXO compatibility, concurrent wallet loading, mining templates and rollback.

Who chooses Bitcoin transactions in a mined block? Trace control across nodes, pool templates, Stratum V1, Stratum V2 and individual ASIC miners.

BIP 88 guide covering its Complete informational status, path constraints, alternatives, ranges, hardened markers, matching, parsing and wallet recovery safety.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 whitelist guide covering bloomfilter, noban, forcerelay, relay and mempool permissions, implicit defaults, CIDR scope and safe peer trust.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 rpcwhitelist guide covering per-user RPC allowlists, intersection rules, default-deny behaviour, authentication, testing and recovery.

Bitcoin Core 0.20 asmap guide covering experimental ASN mapping, peer bucketing, map provenance and freshness, mapped_as evidence, failure modes and rollback.