Bitcoin Articles

Learn how Bitcoin Cash full nodes for miners works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin Cash node can support SHA-256 miners.

BIP8 and UASF Explained made simple. See the main facts, costs, risks and practical checks before you make a decision.

Plan Bitcoin pool failover during a consensus dispute by checking chain tips, validation rules, automatic fallback, payout assets and pause criteria.

BIP 175 guide covering its closed HD pay-to-contract derivation, invoice commitment, payment-base keys, multiparty proof, privacy and recovery.

BIP 174 PSBT explained: learn how unsigned transactions, UTXO data, key paths and partial signatures move safely between wallets and signers.

BIP 136 TxRef made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 guide covering the miniupnpc security update, UPnP exposure, wallet rescan fixes, fee-display caveat and safe historical patching.

BIP 156 guide covering its closed stem-and-fluff transaction routing, epoch paths, embargo recovery, graph attacks, privacy limits and deployment status.

BIP 157 and 158 compact block filters explained: understand client-side matching, Golomb-coded sets, filter headers and privacy trade-offs.

Compare a Bitcoin chain split vs hard fork, including temporary forks, incompatible rule sets, replay concerns, pool failover and miner revenue risk.

BIP 159 pruned nodes made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 guide covering RPC argument compatibility, SegWit mining templates, UTXO memory accounting, dbcache sizing and safe rollout.