Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
1. You will never be able to re-mine the previous block and get more fees.
The attack described in that paper consists on re-mining a block to claim less fees and incentivize other miners to continue it instead of mining in the honest chain. The thr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
When you create a private key, this process is (or at least should be) completely random - meaning that in theory, the probability of creating some specific private key is 1/N where N is the number of possible private keys. There's nothing stopping...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
Firstly, there is no "each Bitcoin". On a technical level, there is no such an object as "a Bitcoin". Rather it is a ledger of transactions, and the Bitcoin that people own are entries on that ledger.
When Bitcoin is stolen, an additional transactio...