Hottest Questions This Month

5 votes

3 answers

484 views

Is it advisable to operate a release candidate full node on mainnet?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 9 at 11:44

8 votes

2 answers

466 views

If you have the required mining power, is it possible to mine your transaction in the next block without propagating it to the network?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified 2 days ago

4 votes

2 answers

944 views

Can the two biggest bitcoin mining pools lock out all others?

Antoine Poinsot

7,027

modified Nov 13 at 14:37

3 votes

4 answers

204 views

What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?

Lee

458

modified Nov 21 at 21:23

3 votes

1 answer

209 views

Is the Schnorr digital signature scheme a multisignature interactive scheme, and also not an aggregated non-interactive scheme?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 11 at 13:05

4 votes

1 answer

220 views

How is this transaction valid?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 10 at 2:43

4 votes

2 answers

128 views

What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the body? What will happen?

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 2 days ago

1 vote

2 answers

228 views

Why don't Bitcoin mining operations grow exponentially?

Acccumulation

280

answered yesterday

2 votes

1 answer

174 views

Would it work just fine if "bits" was set to "1cd86a52" instead of "1d00d86a" at the first difficulty adjustment?

Pieter Wuille

102k

answered Nov 11 at 13:26

3 votes

2 answers

98 views

Bitcoin Core configured for testnet, syncs mainnet

alexg

263

answered Nov 16 at 12:02

1 vote

1 answer

152 views

What was the first original purpose of the nLocktime? Was it only the time bound to nSequence?

LeaBit

468

modified Nov 3 at 0:38

4 votes

1 answer

71 views

What are hash functions used for in bitcoin?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 11 at 17:03

1 vote

2 answers

190 views

Bitcoin Received But Then Sent

Jagdpanther

11

answered 21 hours ago

2 votes

2 answers

74 views

What Satoshi Nakomoto quotes are there in relation to forks and altcoins?

Lee

458

answered Nov 23 at 11:28

1 vote

1 answer

118 views

How to compute a TXID of any bitcoin transaction in Python

bca-0353f40e

1,014

modified Nov 7 at 13:48

-1 votes

1 answer

90 views

How can I determine if a point on the secp256k1 curve was derived using point addition or point doubling?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 6 at 16:11

1 vote

1 answer

148 views

How to get signature for tweaked public key in P2TR in case of multiple signature?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 8 at 12:26

1 vote

1 answer

85 views

Why does each Bitcoin wallet application generate the same new receive address?

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 2 days ago

2 votes

1 answer

106 views

Is it correct to say that "each transaction input is signed independently"?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 1 at 12:37

2 votes

1 answer

105 views

Legitimate merkle paths for SPV

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 2 days ago

0 votes

1 answer

81 views

What is an "empty vector" in Bitcoin?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 25 at 14:19

2 votes

1 answer

104 views

Are all transactions, whether SegWit or non-SegWit, part of the commitment in a coinbase transaction?

Murch♦

72.6k

modified yesterday

0 votes

1 answer

158 views

Receiving Money on Electrum

caliGeek

103

modified Nov 12 at 5:22

2 votes

1 answer

71 views

What does Pay to Contract (P2C) mean?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 7 at 23:09

0 votes

1 answer

55 views

What would happen if we provide witness program different than 32 bytes for SegWit 1?

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 2 days ago

1 vote

2 answers

67 views

From a technical point of view rather than an economical one, is it possible to mine bitcoin on a laptop?

Lee

458

modified Nov 23 at 19:08

0 votes

1 answer

86 views

I am looking for a software named instawallet used as a bitcoin wallet in 2011

Chadwick Muscovalley

1

modified Nov 3 at 3:12

1 vote

1 answer

86 views

Private key on Bitcoin Core

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 6 hours ago

1 vote

1 answer

84 views

What would happen if we provide to OP_CHECKMULTISIG more than threshold number (m) of signatures?

Mudja Adjum

51

modified Nov 24 at 20:06

1 vote

1 answer

83 views

Is the signature check performed when the signature is the empty vector?

Vojtěch Strnad

6,648

modified Nov 25 at 14:20

0 votes

1 answer

62 views

Supposedly six OFAC sanctioned transactions were missing from blocks. Which transactions are these?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 21 at 23:08

0 votes

2 answers

98 views

How to get x-only public key from the private key, and what does the obtained value represent?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 11 at 23:10

0 votes

1 answer

97 views

What is the relationship between parity and the sign of the points on the elliptic curve?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 12 at 19:15

0 votes

2 answers

56 views

Bitcoin node : importprivkey does not import all getnewaddress previously created

Murch♦

72.6k

modified 6 hours ago

0 votes

1 answer

89 views

How to get scriptPubKey from public key hash

LeaBit

468

answered Oct 31 at 18:37

1 vote

1 answer

53 views

Querying Non-Block Inclusion Evicted Mempool Transactions in Bitcoin Core >25.0

Murch♦

72.6k

modified yesterday

1 vote

1 answer

87 views

What is the way to create public key in P2TR?

Murch♦

72.6k

modified Nov 8 at 14:34

1 vote

1 answer

66 views

What would happen if the non-upgraded node to BIP68 receives block with the transaction where one of its nSequence is different than 0xffffffff?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 3 at 19:58

1 vote

1 answer

101 views

Is the Bitcoin whitepaper embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain? [duplicate]

bordalix

477

answered Nov 13 at 18:07

0 votes

1 answer

77 views

Do we need a taproot commit for multisignatures if there is no script path, but we are using the MuSig2 protocol?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 23 at 13:58

2 votes

1 answer

76 views

Can a non-segwit transaction be serialized in the segwit format?

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 3 at 17:40

0 votes

1 answer

59 views

What's the point of Multi Signature Addresses?

Pieter Wuille

102k

answered Nov 10 at 22:31

0 votes

1 answer

97 views

What does a digital signature scheme need to have in order to be used (indirectly) in Bitcoin?

Pieter Wuille

102k

answered Nov 10 at 13:39

2 votes

1 answer

73 views

Why can't I bumpfee the 25th tx in an unconfirmed chain?

Antoine Poinsot

7,027

modified Nov 20 at 8:04

1 vote

1 answer

56 views

Is it true that we don't care about parity with the key path, but it is not case with the script path? (Taproot)

Pieter Wuille

102k

answered Nov 17 at 12:41

0 votes

0 answers

111 views

Is it real BTC or fake

san

1

asked Nov 14 at 17:52

1 vote

1 answer

67 views

Is it possible to calculate the correct y coordinate from x coordinate given only x coordinate without any prefix

Pieter Wuille

102k

modified Nov 19 at 20:21

0 votes

1 answer

86 views

Shouldn't nodes get reward by protecting the protocol?

Pieter Wuille

102k

answered Nov 7 at 20:32

Top Questions

Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags. Help us answer unanswered questions.