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How can government “seize” bitcoins?

modified May 23 at 23:44 mic_e 111

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How can we trust supply won't be increased in 2140 by just a few lines of code?

consensus supply

modified Jun 9 at 11:31 Peter Mortensen 396

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Does the Taproot update benefit all bitcoin users? or is it for a selective amount of people

lightning-network taproot

answered May 19 at 18:11 chytrik 15.6k

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Where and how are raw transactions stored on the blockchain?

bitcoin-core transactions blockchain

answered May 31 at 11:51 slebetman 109

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Is it possible (not feasible) to mine bitcoins with Bitcoin Core v0.21.1?

bitcoin-core miner-configuration

answered May 23 at 14:33 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Why can the block production rate be as low as two per hour?

mining-theory block-interval blockspace-market

modified Jun 9 at 14:48 Murch♦ 54.5k

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What exactly is “privatekeys.pw”?

security private-key privacy websites request

answered May 29 at 4:15 Jim Zhou 1

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Why does a WIF include the network?

private-key wallet-import-format

answered May 30 at 20:36 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Colonial pipeline attack - how was ransom partially recovered

ransomware

modified Jun 9 at 4:01 MELISSA THOMPSON 1

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To run a full node, should I get a static IP address from my ISP?

network nodes p2p

modified Jun 6 at 17:15 Fanta 153

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Is Bitcoin-lightning still not scalable?

lightning-network scalability

modified May 22 at 23:37 Murch♦ 54.5k

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What happens if nSequence is set to 0x00000000?

transactions script mempool relay

modified 22 hours ago Burak 33

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Where are transaction fees specified?

transactions transaction-fees

modified yesterday Murch♦ 54.5k

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Some technical questions about Bitcoin [closed]

blockchain cryptography

modified May 17 at 14:45 RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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Will P2TR make P2WSH obsolete?

segregated-witness taproot p2wsh p2tr

modified yesterday chytrik 15.6k

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How can we derive all work ever done on the system from the lowest hash ever found?

hash

modified Jun 7 at 6:06 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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What are the downsides to enabling potentially suboptimal or unused opcodes in a future soft fork?

script soft-fork opcodes

answered Jun 10 at 19:03 G. Maxwell 7,013

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Output Descriptor for an Arbitrary Script

multi-signature output-script-descriptors

answered May 26 at 2:19 Andrew Chow♦ 53.4k

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Why must the entire chain be included in calculations if it's already been validated. Why can't the validated portions be archived to save energy? [duplicate]

blockchain validation energy-consumption

modified May 21 at 3:07 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Unconfirmed btc transactions

unconfirmed-transactions

answered May 20 at 13:18 Mike D 2,341

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Why there are so many miners, if only one will be rewarded?

mining-theory network mining-reward

modified yesterday RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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Why do we need miners

mining-theory wallet-security

modified Jun 7 at 16:52 David Schwartz 49.6k

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What happens if a miner deliberately ignores a transaction, and “wins”?

mining-theory block doublespend attack

answered May 27 at 16:23 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Is it possible to restrict Bitcoin's network traffic?

network nodes

modified May 26 at 21:32 Mike D 2,341

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How do the fees for taproot transactions compare to P2WPKH?

transaction-fees taproot p2wpkh

modified 2 days ago Vojtěch Strnad 310

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How do I get coin supply on Bitcoin core?

bitcoin-core json-rpc

modified May 27 at 15:17 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Is it possible to capture network events without going full-node?

client network

answered May 30 at 20:58 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Are the witnesses segregated with Schnorr signatures?

segregated-witness transaction-malleability schnorr-signatures

modified 2 days ago darosior 3,034

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In Bitcoin Core, are compact blocks pre-filled with more than just the coinbase?

bitcoin-core network p2p transaction-propagation compact-blocks

answered May 31 at 3:30 Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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If the Lightning Network is so great, why is it “level 2”, not stable and not built into Bitcoin Core?

bitcoin-core lightning-network bitcoincore-development development marketing

modified Jun 6 at 8:45 RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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Taproot can boost bitcoin to how many transaction per second?

bitcoin-core buy-bitcoins

modified Jun 4 at 12:45 Prayank 3,856

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Bitcoin Core Onion Service created unexpectedly

bitcoin-core tor

answered 2 days ago Pieter Wuille 68.8k

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Can an attacker flood the Bitcoin network with fake transactions?

transaction-fees security unconfirmed-transactions attack banks

modified May 24 at 17:18 nikfilippas 3

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How did Satoshi grow the Bitcoin community?

adoption bitcointalk marketing

answered May 30 at 8:11 WizardofAus 61

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Set fee limit for Lightning Close Channel

lightning-network

answered May 16 at 16:02 Rene Pickhardt 9,209

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Who in their right mind would waste their Bitcoin on taxes or buying random stuff?

payment taxes money

modified May 28 at 0:03 Nate Eldredge 22.4k

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What does bitcoin do that prevents someone from using your coins by just generating a key pair and saying “you” sent those coins?

transactions wallet signature

answered May 27 at 3:01 Andrew Chow♦ 53.4k

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What can I do if someone obtained control of my blockchain wallet?

blockchain wallet fraud funds

modified May 27 at 14:24 RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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What does verifying a fake transaction mean?

mining-pools transaction-verification supply

answered May 24 at 14:12 Murch♦ 54.5k

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Why are the addresses in the same block in bitcoin and bitcoin cash different?

address bitcoin-cash

modified Jun 5 at 13:27 Glorfindel 442

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Orderly Transition Away from ECC? Or Bitcoin to zero?

security public-key signature secp256k1

modified May 20 at 19:08 chytrik 15.6k

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What command to generate BTC legacy address in electrum?

bitcoin-core electrum

answered May 30 at 18:08 Prayank 3,856

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Identifying address types using v1+ segwit outputs

bech32-address bip350-bech32m

answered Jun 1 at 16:28 darosior 3,034

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1-CPU-1 Vote Bitcoin confusion

bitcoin-core proof-of-work consensus

modified Jun 2 at 9:50 RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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Can ACINQ (Phoenix wallet peer) steal my funds during a recovery?

security lightning-network

answered Jun 3 at 15:33 darosior 3,034

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Isn't burning bitcoins a kind of fraud?

blockchain buy-bitcoins fraud terminology business

modified Jun 3 at 9:30 RedGrittyBrick 12.1k

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Does the future SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT capability hurt the privacy of Taproot lightning channels?

lightning-network taproot

answered May 22 at 23:33 Rene Pickhardt 9,209

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What is the meaning of difficulty in Bitcoin mining?

blockchain difficulty

modified yesterday Murch♦ 54.5k

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