Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Is Ethereum essentially Bitcoin with a Turing-complete scripting language and, if I understand correctly, where the script to be executed (not its hash) is placed in the Ethereum blockchain?
That's a bit of a simplification, (Ethereum has other...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
A pruning node will trim the number of transactions you need to store. In the most extreme cases, they can store just the UTXO set and the most recent couple blocks, but the degree of pruning is variable, and up to the node operator. Think of it lik...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
multi signature - Creation of P2SH MultiSig Input Script - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
To an extent yes. It's bad that mining pools are so big and fairly concentrated. Work is being done to try to alleviate this.
A few points limit the threat though:
The amount of harm miners can do is limited. They can't outright steal money, or cr...