Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
It is a thing that can be done, but it requires trust. Any user may, at any time, confirm the chain they have is a legitimate chain by starting from the genesis block. They merely need to crank through a few gigabytes of data and hash it all. Oka...
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
What you really do is to send bitcoins (with a phone app, in this case) to a bitcoin address. So, strictly speaking, Blockchain or Coinbase, if we consider only the send/receive function, are providing you something it's already yours, meaninf that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Do you modify the block or do you not modify the block?
If you don't modify the block, it still pays the mining reward to the same account. So you've just done what everyone wants you to do.
If you do modify the block, it won't be valid anymore unti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
I want to call chainActive.Tip()->nHeight in core.cpp. It is not possible, I am interested in every idea.
https://github.com/LIMXTEC/BitSend/blob/DEV-joshafest/src/core.cpp
Here is an example :
bool GetH()
{ int nBlockHeight = chainActive....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
The chainActive variable stores the best known block chain. But this is essentially just the chain of block headers, not the actual blocks themselves. To load the actual block from disk, use the ReadBlockFromDisk() function. But, be aware that this...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
If you use an iPhone, give a try, the app is cool, too. On Android I'd probably use .
All of those have nice and clean interfaces. Send some coins back and forth to get a feeling for it.
It's better for the network to run a full node (=use a cli...