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
The discrete logarithm problem is a cryptography concept that underlies the basis of much of modern cryptography. In general the discrete logarithm problem states that for the equation bk (mod p) = a where b, a, and p are known values and p is prime...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
privacy - Can one trace a criminal with his Pubkey? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Last call to make your voice heard! Our 2022 Developer Survey closes in less than a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
1. You will never be able to re-mine the previous block and get more fees. The attack described in that paper consists on re-mining a block to claim less fees and incentivize other miners to continue it instead of mining in the honest chain. The thr...
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
Ports One way that forks can deliberately separate themselves is by using a different TCP port number for network communications. Currency Port Bitcoin 8333 Litecoin 9333 Handshake When two Bitcoin-like programs communicate with one another, there...
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 - 6 years ago
charts - Different candle positions in coins with same OCHL values - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 181 Q&A communities including Stack Ov...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
There two ways to go from parent to child, non-hardened and hardened, the former allowing both (1) a parent private key -> child private key function and (2) a parent public key -> child public key function. (Hardened parent -> child relati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Your privacy By...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Q1) What are the possible attacks (even though completely theoretical) which are possible in case 2 but not in case 1. Please elaborate security-model change required to shift from Case 1 to Case 2. None. If there happens to be a fork that makes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Neither currencies nor coins are stored anywhere but at addresses out on the blockchain. You may be talking about the secrets that give authority to send / spend those assets? Seed Recovery phrases, passwords, PIN codes, private keys, master extende...
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 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
Public / Private key encryption requires that the private key is never revealed - the owner must keep it secret. Message and transaction signing is done with the private key and verified with the associated public key. So the private key is never re...
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
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...
