Node Operations Articles

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.

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

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

Horizen Secure Node rewards explained in plain English, including historical collateral, uptime, server costs and their relationship with Equihash mining.

Learn how Bitcoin Gold mining nodes works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin Gold node can support Equihash-BTG miners.

Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 guide covering fork-safety peer checks, stale-tip connections, block-weight mining, wallet safeguards, RPC changes and rollback.

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

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.

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

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

BIP 159 pruned nodes made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.