Top new questions this week:
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What does the v in vin and vout stand for? And is it an instance of a more general naming scheme?
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Giacomo Zucco pointed out the oddity of there being one timelock field per transaction, but one sequence per input. Even for the original use of determining the order of replacement, it would seem …
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Pieter Wuille wrote this: There is no such thing as P2WPK; the only valid witness v0 programs are P2WPKH (OP_0 + hash160 of pubkey) or P2WSH (OP_0 + sha256 of script). But I don’t understand the …
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When converting uint256 (the datatype used to represent hashes) to string in Bitcoin Core, the bytes are reversed. When debugging functional tests, this can create potential confusion when comparing …
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Where does the data come from?
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Just wondering if I can still have valid transactions without accepting incoming connections. Example: I am working on a Windows-To-Go drive that has my Bitcoin Core on it. Sometimes I will be unable …
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Couldn’t we just define an AssumeValid block each N blocks, instead of adding it manually? What is the difference from just periodically picking sufficiently confirmed blocks? Anyway those blocks have …
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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 have trouble finding the difference between a full node and a miner. It looks like these two names are used interchangeably which I think is not entirely correct. Miners do process blocks and full …
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I’m curious as how one would go about arbitraging crypto currencies – How does it work? what do I need to look out for? What are the risks and caveats?
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Bitcoin users frequently generate new addresses for each transaction they make, which greatly increases the number of bitcoin addresses being used to receive money. Would it be possible (and …
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Where can I find the blockchain, wallet.dat, etc. on each of the operating systems Bitcoin-Qt supports?
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First going the easy way, I would use any online calculator but most of these mining calculators require the hash rate of my device. I am unable to find a suitable answer or a guide to easily compute …
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If I want to transfer an address from the satoshi client into a different client, how can I find its private key to do so?
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Can you answer these questions?
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Submarine Swap is a trustless swap between Bitcoin (L1) and Lighning (L2). I understand the process of trustless swap from BTC to LN (aka. Swap In, Loop in, or forward swap), but I would need help …
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I’m having a problem with “connecting” my mempool.space to electrumX server. My bitcoin core is working fine, electrumX server is fine as well and up to chaintip. I’ve installed docker and …
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Are signatures over Curve25519 better than over Secp256k1 or are there major drawbacks? How do, for instance, EdDSA/Schnorr using Curve25519 compare with ECDSA/Schnorr for Secp256k1?
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