Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
A common criticism of Segregated Witness is that it is "unnecessarily complex". Why is it chosen over alternatives?
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Calling the Lightning Network (LN) a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) system is orthogonal to the concept usually labeled as PoS. What we usually describe as PoS is a mechanism to achieve distributed consensus among a network of participants. Staking is hereby...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
This is what I see for a search on pgp.mit.eud, which points to this key: That is a surprising result. If we download the key purported to be Nakamoto's from Bitcoin.org, we get the following fingerprint: pub 1024D/5EC948A1 2008-10-30 Key f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
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
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
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
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago