Mining Operations Articles

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

A Ravencoin full node for miners can improve control, privacy and verification, but it does not pay a separate node reward. Learn the real benefits and costs.

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.

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

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

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

Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 guide covering assumevalid, mempool persistence, manual pruning, performance, RPC changes, fee bumping and safe historical rollout.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 guide covering wallet mempool rejection, compact-block fixes, chainwork IBD, RPC serialization, fee estimates and safe rollout.

Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 guide covering SegWit activation parameters, NULLDUMMY, miner signalling, compact-block support, platform changes and rollback.

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