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How does a blockchain relying on PoW verify that a hash is computed using an algorithm and not made up by a human?

answered Apr 8 at 5:23 Kelli 75

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Will “Taproot” replace Lightning Network?

bitcoin-core lightning-network taproot

modified Apr 6 at 16:25 Murch♦ 52.6k

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Is - a valid bitcoin address character

lost-bitcoins p2pkh

modified Apr 12 at 10:51 Murch♦ 52.6k

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How does the blockchain resolve arbitration issues?

blockchain transaction-verification decentralization

modified Mar 20 at 17:07 Murch♦ 52.6k

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How hard is it for an exchange to adopt native segwit? Is it not as simple as updating the address regex checker on the front-end?

exchanges segregated-witness bech32-address p2wpkh deposit

modified Apr 7 at 14:10 Murch♦ 52.6k

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Plot of distribution of all bitcoin transaction fees paid?

transactions transaction-fees mining-reward

modified Mar 22 at 5:26 Prayank 3,171

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Should block height or MTP or a mixture of both be used in a soft fork activation mechanism?

soft-fork bip9-version-bits activation-mechanism bip8-version-bits

modified yesterday Michael Folkson 5,422

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Question about “Lost” Bitcoin

buy-bitcoins

modified Mar 25 at 22:55 RedGrittyBrick 11k

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Bitcoin-qt getnewaddress returns address starting with 2

bitcoin-core address testnet p2sh

modified Apr 2 at 15:31 Alen Uyee 1

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Does Bitcoin mining reward halving have documentation? Or is it just in the code?

money-supply shrinking-money-supply documentation

modified Apr 8 at 14:26 leevancleef 312

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Blockchain transaction verification

blockchain

modified Mar 30 at 13:40 Murch♦ 52.6k

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I have lost my wallet, what can I do?

wallet-recovery lost-wallet canonical-question

modified Mar 28 at 0:39 Community♦ 1

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Who would benefit from Taproot deployment?

taproot

modified Apr 5 at 11:22 Murch♦ 52.6k

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Are Bitcoin's blocks signed by the miner?

mining-theory signature

modified Apr 12 at 12:41 Glorfindel 438

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Send and Received BITCOIN

client website-integration

answered Mar 29 at 14:08 Murch♦ 52.6k

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How to create a transaction without broadcasting

bitcoin-core

modified Mar 24 at 14:01 Anton 31

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How can I get the transaction version from a hex dump?

transactions

modified Apr 2 at 12:00 Rene Pickhardt 8,819

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if the hardware wallet company ledger goes out of business, what will happen to my crypto asset / private keys in ledger?

wallet

modified 21 hours ago Martha D.moreno 1

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What's the advantages of using the block chain as opposed to L2 solutions

blockchain lightning-network altcoin architecture aeternity-blockchain

modified Apr 3 at 11:02 darosior 2,768

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How do I actually USE this Lightning Network?

lightning-network

answered Mar 26 at 13:23 Murch♦ 52.6k

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bitcoin-core automatic coin selection

bitcoin-core transaction-fees privacy coin-selection

modified Mar 25 at 0:21 Andrew Chow♦ 51.4k

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Relocating Physical Node Location

lightning-network full-node nodes

modified Apr 11 at 15:53 Mark H 2,915

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What would happen when everybody decides to convert their BTC to cash?

exchange-rate

modified Apr 10 at 17:55 Murch♦ 52.6k

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Problems about update of protocol of bitcoin

bitcoincore-development development

modified Mar 27 at 11:44 Peter Mortensen 390

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What is the incentive for continuing to mine bitcoin as we get very close to the 21 million cap?

mining-profitability

modified 2 days ago leevancleef 312

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Could not detect boost libraries when configuring Bitcoin core - Apple M1 Mac Mini

compiling

answered Apr 4 at 16:53 Knut Karnapp 11

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What exaclty does owning cryptocurrency mean?

development

modified Mar 26 at 16:12 RedGrittyBrick 11k

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If the computer that stores the bitcoin is destroyed, how does someone access their bitcoin?

blockchain wallet storage

modified Apr 1 at 7:00 Community♦ 1

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Function combinerawtransaction is not working

transactions bitcoind raw-transaction transaction-verification createrawtransaction

answered 2 days ago Andrew Chow♦ 51.4k

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Why aren't public-private keys sufficient to build a block chain? Why do we need proof of work/stake?

blockchain public-key proof-of-work

modified Apr 2 at 23:24 chytrik 14.7k

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How does the bitcoin core protect against initial DNS seed changes?

attack seed majority-attack dns

modified Apr 3 at 1:19 Prayank 3,171

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Setting up lightning with bitcoin-core

bitcoin-core bitcoind lightning-network bitcoin-cli lightning-network-daemon

modified Mar 26 at 14:22 Murch♦ 52.6k

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How would I avoid spending my Bitcoins when I need to buy a house quickly? [closed]

payment sell-bitcoins value fiat lending

answered Apr 4 at 10:53 RedGrittyBrick 11k

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Are there any existing tools to measure the time required for block and transaction validation？

bitcoin-core

answered Mar 23 at 5:54 Anonymous 13.1k

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How Often Is “Contributors” Section Updated on Bitcoin.Org

bitcoincore-development bitcoin.org

answered Mar 25 at 9:47 leevancleef 312

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Can satoshi nakamoto change bitcoin

bitcoind decentralization satoshi-nakamoto

answered Apr 4 at 14:08 DaJin Wei 1

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Binance API Error Code: “code”: -1022, “msg”: “Signature for this request is not valid.”

api binance

asked Mar 20 at 7:52 sLuCHa 1

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I'm worried I have lost my BTC from sending on my BTC Core 0.13.2 wallet

bitcoin-core lost-transactions

modified Mar 19 at 5:37 organica 11

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REST API to fetch block by height

api block

modified Mar 26 at 23:55 leevancleef 312

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If my phone is powered off will i still receive my bitcoin

transactions

answered Apr 9 at 19:22 Omar Saadoun 181

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Bitcoin public key — why do we have a compressed and uncompressed version?

public-key

modified Apr 6 at 2:01 Gary 113

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Can lightning transaction participants link the transaction to on-chain funding transaction UTXOs?

lightning-network privacy

modified Apr 10 at 18:38 Murch♦ 52.6k

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What would happen if mining difficulty would be decreased to almost nothing?

difficulty

answered Mar 23 at 16:54 Andrew Chow♦ 51.4k

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Transaction outputs with value 0

transactions value raw-data

answered Mar 28 at 14:35 Andrew Chow♦ 51.4k

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How will Bitcoin be inflation free?

money-supply inflation

modified Apr 1 at 14:50 user119042 36

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Why does Electrum include seemingly unnecessary inputs in a transaction?

transactions transaction-fees electrum coin-control

answered Apr 7 at 15:46 Prayank 3,171

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Is it possible to send Bitcoin without the passphrase to the wallet?

bitcoin-core wallet private-key

answered Mar 27 at 16:09 Anonymous 13.1k

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bitcoin payment has big fees

bitcoin-core transactions transaction-fees

modified Mar 29 at 16:59 leevancleef 312

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