Mining Software Articles

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

Bitcoin Core mempool persistence guide covering its 0.14 introduction, mempool.dat, prioritisation state, startup validation, corruption and safe restart tests.

Bitcoin Core assumevalid guide covering skipped historical scripts, chainwork selection, default anchors, UTXO validation, threat model, benchmarking and rollback.

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

Bitcoin Core incrementalrelayfee guide covering BIP 125 bandwidth cost, mempool eviction, separation from minrelaytxfee and safe policy testing.

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

BIP 90 Buried Deployments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

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

Bitcoin Core reindex-chainstate guide covering its 0.13 introduction, two-phase reindexing, block-index reuse, UTXO rebuilding, pruning and recovery.

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