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

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

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

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

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

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How is this transaction valid?

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

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Why don't Bitcoin mining operations grow exponentially?

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

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Bitcoin Core configured for testnet, syncs mainnet

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

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What are hash functions used for in bitcoin?

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Bitcoin Received But Then Sent

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

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How to compute a TXID of any bitcoin transaction in Python

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

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

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

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

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Legitimate merkle paths for SPV

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What is an "empty vector" in Bitcoin?

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

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Receiving Money on Electrum

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What does Pay to Contract (P2C) mean?

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

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

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

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Private key on Bitcoin Core

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

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

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

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

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

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Bitcoin node : importprivkey does not import all getnewaddress previously created

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How to get scriptPubKey from public key hash

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

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What is the way to create public key in P2TR?

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

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

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

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

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What's the point of Multi Signature Addresses?

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

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

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

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Is it real BTC or fake

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

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Shouldn't nodes get reward by protecting the protocol?


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