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...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 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
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
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Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 9 years ago
Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin (Published 2015)& & The New York Times
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
Recall from the that for Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) clients, security is measured mainly by the amount of work done to secure a particular transaction. SPV nodes can't use past headers alone to verify that an incoming payment is valid,...
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...
