Mining Pools Articles

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

BIP 141 transaction weight explained for miners: calculate base size, total size, virtual bytes, witness discount and four-million-unit block limits.

BIP 125 replace by fee made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP9 miner signalling explained through DEFINED, STARTED, LOCKED_IN, ACTIVE and FAILED states, including retarget windows and pool checks.

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

BIP 66 strict DER signatures explained through Bitcoin encoding rules, activation and the 2015 fork caused by miners building without full validation.

Learn how Dogecoin AuxPoW nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Dogecoin node can support Scrypt miners.

Litecoin Dogecoin merged mining explained from Dogecoin’s AuxPoW activation to parent coinbase commitments, pool accounting and practical miner checks.

Learn how Syscoin merged mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Syscoin node can support SHA-256 miners.

BIP 81 coloured voting-pool hierarchy explained as a closed design using five hash-derived colour levels plus series and address indexes.

BIP 80 voting-pool wallet hierarchy explained as a closed design for coin, series and address branches in deterministic multisig cold storage.

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