Top new questions this week:
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I understand that the actual size limit of a transaction is determined by the block size, as we can see from this absolute unit. But transactions this large must be submitted directly to a mining pool …
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I was wondering how the nBits are calculated from the target, I know how the the target is calculated from nBits, but how is the nBits calculated from the target?
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Whenever I try to review P2P and mempool (default) policy proposals I end up going round in circles around this maze of docs, mailing list posts and pull requests. Some of them are outdated, some …
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I’m having a very difficult time finding the first-ever P2SH transaction on the blockchain. I do not have a query tool to answer this question myself, sadly. All internet searches result in this …
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Using LND, I opened a channel with –local_amt=1100000 and –push_amt=500000. I would think that would open a channel with a capacity of 1100000, a local balance of 600000 and a remote balance of …
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Specifically I want to know, for which types of misbehaves does ban score algorithm give a ban score to a node?
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I’m a total newbie who’s into Bitcoin. I was in the middle of downloading Bitcoin core(78%) when my computer just freeze for hours that I have to force shutdown without closing the Bitcoin Core …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Where do bitcoins come from? From the WeUseCoins.com video it appears they are just being produced by “miners” and sold to people. So who backs Bitcoin or gives it its value?
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I am using blockchain.info. I have made a bitcoin transaction of 22.00883562 BTC to the address 1A9eUAc78tGx65X3CuC9WfSKXXgxjU8ccC. You can see the transaction at blockchain.info/tx/…
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If I know the exchange rate, how can I calculate the value of some amount bitcoins in my native currency?
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What made the core developers choose C++ as the main programming language for implementing bitcoin? Was this because of their personal preference? Or another reason?
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I’m relatively new to the world of Bitcoins and understand the basic principles of wallets and addresses etc, but was wondering how exchanges (like Coinbase) work exactly. Is the entire exchange …
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I started mining on a friend’s computer and it shows 300 kH/s. But when I research other peoples’ hash rates I usually see MH/s. Are these speeds the same as kilobytes and megabytes? Also, when I say …
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I understand that all the Bitcoin protocol is based on an asymmetric cryptography. A user gets 2 keys (public and private). How do these keys connect to the Bitcoins? How are the keys are related …
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Not trusting those already available QR code generators available, I would want to program my own. The idea is to input a Bitcoin key ( private or public ) and the program would simply generate the …
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