Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
Difficulty is defined relatively: it is how much more difficult it is to mine a block compared to a fixed "maximum target", which corresponds to roughly 232 hashes.
In more detail, a Bitcoin block is PoW-valid when its hash (interpreted as a 256-bit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
A Bitcoin transaction is a combination of one or more inputs and one or more outputs. Each input is itself an out put of a previous transaction. So it is not liquid. I think it is good to think of them as paper banks. If you buy something that costs...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
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The cost of transactions is independent of the amount transferred. Rather it depends on the weight of the transaction, the current blockspace demand, and the urgency the sender wants to see it confirmed.
A transaction's weight is calculated from the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
In bitcoin source code in this file, comment says that unconfirmed transactions are indexed by 5 criteria. * mapTx is a boost::multi_index that sorts the mempool on 5 criteria: * - transaction hash (txid) * - witness-transaction...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
The mempool is the short-term memory of a full node. We use its content e.g. to:
exchange information with peers
build block templates
estimate feerates
track pending payments to our wallet
The index allows us to look up the full transaction objects...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
segregated witness - How do segwit nodes behave when they receive a transaction between two legacy nodes? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
Today, we celebrate the huge release of the new platform https://8bethub.com
How to play? Simple, it follows the newly innovative next-gen dice game: You must guess the outcome number or what it will exceed on a scale from 1x to 1,0...
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
It seems like there is some bitcoin librairies for interacting directly with a node, or through a server. I have seen a python, rust, go...
Aside the fact that anyone can have a preference for a specific language, what do you think...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
From the perspective of new post-segwit nodes, the witness data is part of the transaction data. It is serialized in a new field, after all the transaction outputs, before the locktime field.
However, this field is stripped out before relaying to ol...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
is possibile to fork the bitcoin blockchain and change it checking if the pow is created from a clean energy?
No.
It isn't possible because there's no way for other nodes to check the source of energy used by an anonymous member of an anonymous mi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
You say you are familiar with how secp256k1 and ECDSA works but from what you say later I'm unsure whether you are. SegWit v0 didn't change the signing algorithm (ECDSA) nor the curve (secp256k1). SegWit v1 (Taproot) did change the signing algorithm...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
You say you are familiar with how secp256k1 and ECDSA works but from what you say later I'm unsure whether you are. SegWit v0 didn't change the signing algorithm (ECDSA) nor the curve (secp256k1). SegWit v1 (Taproot) did change the signing algorithm...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 1 year ago
lightning network - Setting Up Account in LND Pool - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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mining theory - When was proof of stake theorized? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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