Mining Networks Articles

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

Bitcoin compact-block guide covering BIP 152 short IDs, reconstruction, missing transactions, high-bandwidth peers, policy alignment and mining monitoring.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 guide covering compact blocks, HD wallets, SegWit preparation, ancestor mining, reindex-chainstate and safe historical upgrades.

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 mining server time synchronisation works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

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

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

Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 guide covering CSV soft-fork deployment, miner implications, upgrade and downgrade steps, wallet fixes and rollback evidence.

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

Bitcoin Core rpcauth guide covering salted password verifiers, generation, configuration, transport security, rotation, permissions and mining RPC tests.

Bitcoin Core reindex made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core blocksonly mode made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.