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Can an unconfirmed transaction that only Blockchain.info shows be manually re-broadcast?
Blockchain.info shows a transaction that was created by Blockchain.info/wallet but for whatever reason the transaction didn't confirm right away and appears to not be getting re-broadcast (perhaps ...
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Good resource for understanding the peer to peer protocol sequence
I'm looking for a good explanation or reference on the peer to peer aspects of the two main bitcoin actors- the clients(wallets) and miners.
Satoshi's white paper, in section 5. Network, gives a ...
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Can Ripple facilitate business-to-business barter transactions?
Beverly Hills Hotel participates in the Ripple network and issues its USD-denominated IOUs which are redeemable for hotel stays.
Beverly Hills Performance Car Rentals participates in Ripple network ...
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What is the schema of the data stores used by the reference client?
I'm interested in seeing the schema (layout and indexes) that is used in the reference client. Namely wallet.dat, the bk** files and also the in-memory uncommitted tx.
Does this exist anywhere for ...
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How does Bitcoin protect itself from invalid peers from being broadcasted?
From what I've inferred, is that Bitcoin gets a list of peers from other nodes. What is to prevent a malicious node from
Sharing many ip addresses that will cause timeouts and a delay in block ...
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Can any Bitcoin client do local peer discovery and blockchain synchronization?
Usually, when a full Bitcoin client such as bitcoind, Bitcoin-QT, or Multibit start on a fresh installation, they connect "to the network" to download the blockchain. If someone has multiple computers ...
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Does a low profit margin on mining reduce the integrity of the blocks stored in the transaction history?
As the mining Bitcoin payout decreases from 50 to zero, what incentive is there for miners to continue operating?
Is there a need for miners to continue to operate when the payout decreases to zero?
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Does being connected to more peers relay transactions faster?
If I'm connected to 500 peers, will I know about transactions faster than if I'm only connected to 8 peers?
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Looking for a better way of listing all my peers
I am looking for a cheap and efficient way (rather than hacking through the Bitcoin source code) of listing my peers.
Something I have come up with:
#!/bin/bash
netstat -p tcp -nba | grep ...
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How secure are the DNS servers for Bitcoin?
With the version 0.6, Bitcoin introduced the DNS servers that populate the initial peers for new clients. How secure are those servers in terms of being immune to takedown attacks, or injection of ...
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How Bitcoin clients find each other?
What protocols or algorithms are Bitcoin clients using in order to find their peers? I learnt that BitTorrent clients may rely on central computers called trackers. Do Bitcoin clients need any kind of ...
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How often does Bitcoin connect to the fallback nodes?
Does the standard client have a preference for connecting to fallback nodes (for example, by trying to have at least 1 connection to such node at all times), or are they treated like any other nodes?
