Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 4 years ago
I want to use a mnemonic phrase and BIP 39 to store the keys, and use bitcoin-core, I understand that master private keys cannot be imported at least directly and that mnemonic phrase is not supported.
Also, I know that there is the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 4 years ago
I have some generated Bitcoin addresses which I want to monitor for newly received transactions, I have a full node but I don't want to import those addresses to the node's wallet. I don't want to use any external service API like b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 4 years ago
It's usually frustrating when my Bitcoin Core full node is syncing, especially just catching up from merely several hours/days ago.
I wonder how does Bitcoin Core manage its peers? Will it disconnect with slower nodes, and then turn...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
At a high level:
The policy is compiled to Miniscript.
Miniscript is encoded to Bitcoin Script. (One to One Mapping)
Bitcoin Script is decoded back to Miniscript. (One to One Mapping)
Policy and Miniscript can both be lifted to another representatio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
I feel terrible to ask this question as it is so basic that it makes me feel stupid to ask, but I am searching the web since days and cannot find an answer.
Here is the situation: I have a Coinbase account and I understand that Coinbase cannot use d...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
Do Full Nodes validate all transactions after all bitcoin are mined?
Yes. Also, would these nodes still create blocks of transactions
Yes if so, why dont full nodes do this now?
Do what? Validation? If so, full nodes certainly do validat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
Using a mixer helps preserve your financial privacy. The question is: who are you protecting your privacy from?
Bitcoin transactions are public record, so anybody can view any historical transaction at their leisure. So when considering your privacy...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
transactions - How find own address in testnet using bitcoin-cli? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
bitcoind - Bitcoin curl no reply - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
private key - Can you recover seed words with passphrase on bitcoin node? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 5 years ago
Neither client concretely checks that it's on the wrong chain: BCH and BSV had an unclean split.
Neither changed the network magic, nor did either change their transaction format, so their nodes continued to communicate and transactions remained rep...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
The Bitcoin system doesn't have just one network protocol: Any way of obtaining the blocks is equally valid-- blocks over freenet, over satellite broadcast, over the P2P network, all work just as well and are used in practice. UDP is used with bi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
Issue on configuring the bitcoin core build on Ubuntu-18.0.4 - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
DNS seeds which give you a list of hard-coded stable nodes.
No, they don't do that and you are reading those answers incorrectly.
The DNS seeders give you a list of random nodes from a set of stable nodes. They are not hard coded and hard coding n...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
So I understand how blockchains work[1]. I understand how proof-of-work works[2]. And I understand how they work together. I also understand (or at least I think I do :) how transactions work (A block can contain arbitrary data insi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
these questions would justify a whole section of a book. To avoid this, I put a link at the end of the message. In between, I'll try to answer some parts of your question.
I've gone through dozens of videos and texts, but haven't found properly how...
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...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
architecture - What Software Patterns does the Bitcoin source code use? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Easy. Someone has/had remote access to your wallet/files. They don't need access to the computer during the time of a transaction. Example: Send me your wallet and go ahead and secure your computer all you want.... I can simply use your wallet on my...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
I am running a bitcoin node on my machine, fully synced with RPC commands enabled, rpc server live and txindex=1.
In the command-line I can run the following RPC call and obtain the information about the transaction I require. I am...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
I have read the related discussions about how to import a wallet and though they are close, the answers does not help with this problem so I'm asking it here and now.
I have my bitcoin public address which was given to me by blockc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
This may or may not help, but as I have been trying to recover my Bitcoin for quite some time, I have gone through so many processes, some may work, some may not. I have also developed quite a few tools that have helped get me a few steps further, an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
There is a paper that provides extensive detail on the history of all kind of forks on Bitocin, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, you can read it here, Atomically Trading with Roger: Gambling on the success of a hardfork.
Here is the list of Forks so f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
After having installed Bitcoin core on your machine, run the following command to start synchronising the testnet blockchain
bitcoind -testnet -daemon
The synchronisation starts as a daemon and runs in the background, you can issue the following the...