BitcoinBitcoin 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 Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 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...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
bitcoin core development - Debugging bitcoind - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency enthusiasts. It only takes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Bitcoin isn't anonymous in any rigorous sense, and the developers never claimed it was. See for instance https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity. If someone has been telling you that it is, then indeed that is "fakery". However, the specific issue yo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
No authority in India expressly authorizes other entities to use PAN or other unique ID cards for customer verification purposes. The entity itself takes such measures since Government issued identities carries trust and uniqueness. No unique identi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
As I said in the comment above, you're talking about a service to manage actual money. Please don't offer this service to other people until you're sure it's working properly and it doesn't have security flaws. You should try to make your wallet wor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
transactions - Smart contracts in bitcoin - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency enthusiasts. It only takes a m...
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
To an extent yes. It's bad that mining pools are so big and fairly concentrated. Work is being done to try to alleviate this. A few points limit the threat though: The amount of harm miners can do is limited. They can't outright steal money, or cr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
People say the total will be 21000000 BTC. ... however: The 1st 210000 blocks each allow creating 50 BTC. The 2nd 210000 blocks each allow creating 25 BTC. The 3rd 210000 blocks each allow creating 12.5 BTC. ... The 10th 210000 blocks each allow...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
transactions - What is meant by "relaxed standards" for P2SH redeem scripts in Bitcoin Core 0.10.0? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site...
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...
