Bitcoin Articles

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

BIP 84 guide covering purpose 84 native P2WPKH accounts, Bech32 addresses, zpub and zprv versions, discovery gaps, backups and test vectors.

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

BIP 176 Bits Denomination made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Learn how Bitcoin Gold mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin Gold node can support Equihash-BTG miners.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 guide covering fork-safety peer checks, stale-tip connections, block-weight mining, wallet safeguards, RPC changes and rollback.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 guide covering its custom-fee GUI startup fix, inherited chainstate conversion, estimator reset, downgrade limits and safe patching.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 guide covering chainstate conversion, fee estimates, multiwallet RPC routing, RBF, coin-age removal, mempool control and rollback.

BIP 117 guide covering its Draft single tail-call execution rule, SegWit restriction, stack transfer, MAST use with BIP 116 and consensus testing.

BIP 116 guide covering the Draft NOP4 soft-fork proposal, BIP 98 proof checks, hidden policy branches, stack rules, activation and testing.

BIP 98 guide to fast-SHA256 Merkle trees, domain separation, unbalanced trees, proof encoding, CVE-2012-2459 avoidance and safe validation.

BIP 300 guide covering its Draft drivechain consensus proposal, sidechain deposits, miner-governed withdrawals, slow voting, partitioning claims and risks.