Unanswered Questions
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What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
The orphaned blocks view from BlockChain.info shows a recent fork of the blockchain (starting with block 173,928) that went four blocks long before being orphaned.
Other than the controlled rewind ...
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Why do some transactions take months to get into a block?
This page at bitcoincharts shows a list of transactions that didn't get included in a block yet. Many of them are from 2 or 3 months ago, even though they include a fee. What's going on? Why ...
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Peergroup download of the blockchain stalls?
I'm using bitcoinsharp to build my client. I try to download the blockchain in a peergroup network. Download starts, but when progress is 98%, the download is stopped & the client is waiting (2 ...
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Bitcoin initial communication diagram
I'm trying to understand how exactly does the Bitcoin client communicate initially with another client, as I'm making my own client and learning new things about TCP protocol. As I understand, the ...
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Are there any transaction-related artifacts left in the database?
Bitcoin writes to some log files (bitcoin/*.log and bitcoin/database/log.nnnnnn )
Are these (and everything else other than wallet.dat) clear of any information that would allow a forensic ...
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Was a timejacking attack ever performed?
The timejacking attack appears to be a pretty straightforward attack to pull off successfully. I was wondering, whether it was ever performed and documented somewhere, or was it just theoretically ...
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Why are p2sh and CHV forward-compatible but not backward-compatible?
The OP_EVAL BIP says that "Avoiding a block-chain split by malicious OP_EVAL transactions requires careful handling of two cases:
An OP_EVAL transaction that is invalid for new clients/miners but ...
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How to redeem a basic Tx?
Given a raw, standard Tx:
01000000
01
26c07ece0bce7cda0ccd14d99e205f118cde27e83dd75da7b141fe487b5528fb00000000
8b
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Is there a good tutorial on how to use bitcoinjs exit nodes?
The documentation that I found seems to contain info about specific API calls, but no top level explaination/example.
Where can I find a practical concise example of using exit nodes?
I'd like to ...
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Can I CPU mine others coins to win Bitcoins?
I have a useless Nvidia, until now, unconfigurable to mine (7300)
So, if I mine just with CPU, can I get more coins mining others coins like NMC,LQC,LTC,SC, or whatever, and trading after for BTCs?
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Read only blockchain in bitcoind , patch ideas
This question is related to to the ( already nearing 2 GB and always increasing size ) blockchain download needed to use the bitcoin network, and is referencing this previous question :
Is ...
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Is there a Bitcoin gadget for Windows 7?
Is there a Bitcoin gadget for Windows 7, which features conversion rate with EUR? (i.e. EUR/BTC)
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Do any pools discriminate against some transactions?
Are there any pools that openly discriminate against some transactions? For example, they only put transactions with a fee in their blocks, thus ignoring all "free" transactions?
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Is there a Bitcoin gateway for PrestaShop with these specific features?
PrestaShop is a free, secure and open source shopping cart platform.
I am searching for a PrestaShop payment processor with the following features:
works without without third party (save ...
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Namecoin: Is it possible to move a name_new to another wallet? How?
With the current namecoin price this is more of a theoretical nature. It seems it is only possible after a name_firstupdate?
