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How can I run bitcoind in pruning mode?
Awarded Jun 4 at 18:18
ELI5: What's the difference between a child-key and a hardened child-key in BIP32
Awarded Feb 22 at 11:40
What happens if your bitcoin client generates an address identical to another person's?
Awarded Feb 7 at 23:41
What is the difference between BitCoin, Bitcoin, and bitcoin?
Awarded Dec 17, 2022 at 12:58
Why was the target block time chosen to be 10 minutes?
Awarded May 15, 2022 at 13:56
Why the signature is always 65 (1+32+32) bytes long?
Awarded Feb 3, 2022 at 12:46
Why doesn't Bitcoin migrate to proof-of-stake?
Awarded Jul 27, 2021 at 18:48
What are pros and cons of txindex option?
Awarded May 7, 2021 at 22:25
Why does Bitcoin send the "change" to a different address?
Awarded Mar 7, 2021 at 19:55
When should I use -reindex-chainstate and when -reindex
Awarded Nov 26, 2020 at 8:27
How do transactions leave the memory pool?
Awarded Nov 3, 2020 at 13:02
What is a Finney attack?
Awarded Jun 25, 2020 at 19:51
ECDSA: (v, r, s), what is v?
Awarded May 8, 2020 at 6:30
What are bitcoin miners really solving?
Awarded Apr 18, 2020 at 1:15
Have any cryptography experts vetted the bitcoin source code?
Awarded Jan 24, 2020 at 16:20
Redeeming a raw transaction step by step example required
Awarded Dec 1, 2019 at 19:50
How do I import a private key into Bitcoin-Core?
Awarded Oct 30, 2019 at 18:25
What are Green Addresses?
Awarded Oct 2, 2019 at 16:00
Can bitcoin exist without miners?
Awarded May 18, 2019 at 18:00
How do I see the IP address of a bitcoin transaction?
Awarded Apr 29, 2019 at 20:50
How will multisig addresses work?
Awarded Apr 25, 2019 at 16:35
What is a stealth address?
Awarded Apr 9, 2019 at 15:25
What effects would a scalable Quantum Computer have on Bitcoin?
Awarded Mar 19, 2019 at 17:30
How does Bitcoin Cash implement replay protection?
Awarded Nov 24, 2018 at 19:40
How anonymous are Bitcoin transactions?
Awarded Oct 15, 2018 at 11:15
What is an "unspent output"?
Awarded Oct 8, 2018 at 22:20
Where is the data folder for Bitcoin-Qt?
Awarded Sep 9, 2018 at 10:20
What is an SPV client?
Awarded Aug 2, 2018 at 21:30
My raw transaction destroyed 0.0284377 BTC. What did I do wrong?
Awarded Jul 30, 2018 at 21:30
What are the keys used in the blockchain levelDB (ie what are the key:value pairs)?
Awarded Jul 12, 2018 at 7:29
What do the different .dat files contain?
Awarded Mar 27, 2018 at 19:52
What does the curve used in Bitcoin, secp256k1, look like?
Awarded Mar 12, 2018 at 22:26
What are multi-signature transactions?
Awarded Mar 8, 2018 at 19:01
What are Channel Factories and how do they work?
Awarded Feb 15, 2018 at 12:30
What is a share? Can I find it while mining solo, or only when pool mining?
Awarded Jan 26, 2018 at 21:04
Is there any way to track an individual bitcoin (or satoshi)?
Awarded Jan 18, 2018 at 17:57
I am new to Bitcoin, how can I get started?
Awarded Jan 17, 2018 at 14:54
Where are the user's bitcoins actually stored?
Awarded Jan 4, 2018 at 23:38
What is the database for?
Awarded Jan 4, 2018 at 3:45
What is the Merkle root?
Awarded Dec 28, 2017 at 15:57
What keeps the average block time at 10 minutes?
Awarded Dec 23, 2017 at 10:25
What is Gas Limit in Ethereum?
Awarded Dec 22, 2017 at 20:46
Why did Satoshi design Bitcoin to be mineable only on specialized hardware, if the goal was decentralization?
Awarded Nov 12, 2017 at 17:33
Can someone explain how the Bitcoin Blockchain works?
Awarded Sep 19, 2017 at 15:09
What is a soft fork? What is a hard fork? What are their differences?
Awarded Aug 17, 2017 at 22:24
How is difficulty calculated?
Awarded Jul 19, 2017 at 9:39
Will there be 21 million bitcoins eventually?
Awarded Apr 24, 2017 at 9:25
What happens if I mistype the address when making a payment?
Awarded Apr 10, 2017 at 3:28
How to redeem a basic Tx?
Awarded Feb 22, 2017 at 17:35
Why was 21 million picked as the number of bitcoins to be created?
Awarded Feb 7, 2017 at 17:30
How do Bitcoin clients find each other?
Awarded Jan 14, 2017 at 23:48
How do you obtain bitcoins?
Awarded Jan 2, 2017 at 20:28
Is it possible to brute force bitcoin address creation in order to steal money?
Awarded Nov 29, 2016 at 3:58
How much Bitcoin will I mine right now with hardware X?
Awarded Nov 29, 2016 at 3:34
Why don't people buy at one exchange and sell at another?
Awarded Jul 12, 2016 at 12:49
How does merged mining work?
Awarded Jun 18, 2014 at 8:28
What are bitcoin miners really solving?
Awarded Jun 4, 2014 at 17:28
Why doesn't Bitcoin return lost coins back into the block reward?
Awarded Mar 7, 2014 at 3:02
What can an attacker with 51% of hash power do?
Awarded Mar 5, 2014 at 1:34
What is a 'Satoshi'?
Awarded Jan 2, 2014 at 14:13
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