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Who started the force close?

A lightning channel force closed. I did not (intentionally) start this process. During the FC Lncli pendingchannels says:"initiator": "INITIATOR_REMOTE", "commitment_type": "ANCHORS", "num_forwarding_packages": "0", "chan_status_flags": "" }, "closi...

How throughput, latency, finality, waiting time are defined?

bitcoin TransactionBuilder is not a constructor

Did the Bitcoin network reduce spam?

Alternative fee functions for the Lightning Network

Hash publication - Bitcoin whitepaper Section 3 Timestamp server

It just means that blocks, and consequently block-hashes, are widely distributed among a large community of completely independent entities. In this case, the community of Bitcoin nodes / Bitcoin users. Any nodes that perform timestamping (mining) h...

sending tx with fee/vsize < 1 satoshi

No unmodified Bitcoin Core releases from 2017 to date will accept such a transactions to their mempool, relay them, or mine them. Before 2017 there existed rules that in some cases permitted relay of transactions with lower or no fee at all, though...

Sent BTC from Coinbase, blockchain explorer says Confirmed. Recipient didn't receive it. How can I confirm?

Modelling random walks for double spending based on hashrate

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What is the compact_size function used in BIP341?

It refers to the CompactSize encoding frequently used in the Bitcoin P2P protocol for integers (in particular, lengths of vectors). It's also called VarInt in some other protocol descriptions. Since it predates the BIP process (was part of the origi...

What is the different between CompactSize and VarInt encoding?

There are two distinct variable-length integer encodings implemented in Bitcoin Core's serialization framework: The encoding used in the P2P protocol for the lengths of vectors (number of transactions in blocks, number of inputs/outputs in transact...

Finding Hash with 11 leading zeroes

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Is Node and Normal User same or different in Lightning Network?

In Bitcoin, Node and user(Sender, Recipient) are entirely different The Bitcoin network protocols do not distinguish different types of participant or assign special roles. Any participant in the Bitcoin network is a node. This includes senders an...

Is Node and Normal User same or different?

How to Reinstate FREE $ 200 in BTC in Freebitco.in? [closed]

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How to add more bitcoins to funding channel in Lightning Network

Lets say Alice want's to send some BTC to Bob of worth 1BTC. So, lets say Alice created a funding channel with Bob of 1BTC+some miniscule amount of BTC for fees and let's say Alice transferred whole channel capacity to Bob and next day again Alice w...

How would you send more than a channel's capacity?

You can only send as much funds through a channel as belong to you in the channel. So, no Alice cannot send the full capacity of the channel to Bob twice, unless the whole capacity had been sent back meanwhile. If you're sending only in one directio...

How to add more bitcoin to funding channel in Lightning Network

Most common derivation Paths, accounts and indexes

alternative definition of Proof of Work

Is it correct to say that PoW is only a method that serves to make it very unlikely that many solutions coexist in parallel for the same block? No. PoW is a method by which an amorphous mass of participants select one participant to provide an ord...

Is there a subgroup of order 2^n (for large n) of the prime field that secp256k1 is defined over?

No, there cannot be. There are two groups defined by the secp256k1 field, the addition group, and the group of multiplication of its non-zero elements. Neither has a large 2n subgroup, because the order of a subgroup of a finite group must be a divi...

Why we need to repalce the ScriptSig with the previous ScriptPubKey when calculate the per input signature hash?

Why does only one of the two nonce points in MuSig2 have the exponent b?

A slight variant of MuSig2, named MuSig2*, sets one of the coefficients to 1 to make the key aggregation function slightly more efficient. This is described in a draft specification of MuSig2 : ↩ MuSig2* optimization: The specification uses an opti...

I am running neutrino on windows I am getting error "Waiting for chain backend to finish sync , start height = 0"

i am using neutrino in lnd my neutrino code is ***bitcoin.node=neutrino neutrino.addpeer=faucet.lightning.community bitcoin.active=true bitcoin.mainnet=true bitcoin.node=neutrino neutrino.connect=faucet.lightning.community feeurl=https://nodes.light...

My USDT transaction unconfirmed in blockchain network from past 60days

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