Mining Networks Articles

Bitcoin Core 0.17.1 guide covering label behaviour, wallet and PSBT fixes, network hardening, upgrade and downgrade boundaries, testing and rollback.

Polis mining ended after its move from X11 proof of work to proof of stake. Learn what changed at block 209,720 and how to check old guides safely.

Learn how Aeternity mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Aeternity node can support Cuckoo Cycle miners.

Learn how mining pool latency measurement works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 stop RPC guide covering authority, service draining, state persistence, process supervision, shutdown verification and restart readiness.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 setnetworkactive guide covering full P2P disable and enable, service impact, stale state, maintenance sequencing, recovery and monitoring.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 ping guide covering all-peer requests, getpeerinfo results, decimal-second units, processing backlog, asynchronous sampling and alerts.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 getnetworkinfo guide covering versions, services, relay, time offset, connections, network reachability, proxies, fees and warnings.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 getnetworkhashps guide covering sampling windows, difficulty periods, historical heights, variance, units and mining forecasts.

Bitcoin Core getblockchaininfo guide covering network, blocks and headers, progress, IBD, chainwork, pruning, soft-fork state, warnings and monitoring.

Bitcoin Core getaddednodeinfo guide covering persistent added peers, onetry exclusion, connected addresses, direction, DNS, monitoring and topology audits.

Bitcoin Core disconnectnode guide covering address and node-ID targeting, immediate scope, reconnection, addnode interactions, monitoring and access control.