Mining Hardware Articles

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

Learn how three-phase ASIC load balancing works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

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

Learn how single-phase versus three-phase mining works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how verify ASIC firmware checksum works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Understand miner signalling vs economic consensus in Bitcoin: what version bits communicate, what full nodes enforce and how pools should manage activation risk.

Learn how Zcash full nodes for miners works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Zcash node can support Equihash miners.

Learn how ASIC fan speed temperature noise works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how Ethereum Classic mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Ethereum Classic node can support Etchash miners.

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 152 compact block relay explained for miners: learn short transaction IDs, reconstruction, missing-transaction requests and propagation risk.

Learn how Ethereum uncle rewards works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Ethereum node can support Ethash miners.