Mining Operations Articles

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

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

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.

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

Bitcoin Core 0.12 pruning guide covering wallet support, retained blocks, rescans, indexes, backups, mining nodes and reversible deployment tests.

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

Bitcoin Core Data Directory 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.

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

Bitcoin Core ZMQ guide covering hash and raw block or transaction topics, unauthenticated PUB sockets, loss, reorgs and subscriber recovery.

Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release guide covering libsecp256k1, mempool limits, opt-in RBF, RPC cookies, pruning wallets and downgrade planning.

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