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What is pool hopping?
Awarded Feb 27 at 17:26
What is the maximum size of a transaction?
Awarded Jan 17 at 16:15
How is the generator point G chosen in the secp256k1 curve used in Bitcoin?
Awarded Jan 14 at 0:55
Derivation of parent private key from non-hardened child
Awarded Jan 10 at 21:55
What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Awarded Jan 10 at 11:42
Why does Bitcoin no longer have checkpoints?
Awarded Jan 8 at 10:27
What's the minimum transaction with bitcoin?
Awarded Sep 11, 2023 at 0:36
Will there be 21 million bitcoins eventually?
Awarded Aug 31, 2023 at 22:56
What is the script assembly and execution in P2TR spend (spend from Taproot)
Awarded Jun 18, 2023 at 7:40
What is a DNS seed node vs a Seed Node?
Awarded Jun 15, 2023 at 7:57
Is there a difference between bytes and virtual bytes (vbytes)?
Awarded May 12, 2023 at 15:40
Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?
Awarded Feb 15, 2023 at 11:26
Where is Bitcoin information (wallet.dat) stored on OS X?
Awarded Oct 22, 2022 at 14:22
Merkle Root and Merkle Proofs
Awarded Oct 12, 2022 at 7:42
Why was the MIT license chosen for Bitcoin?
Awarded Sep 7, 2022 at 16:26
How was the magic network ID value chosen?
Awarded Jul 25, 2022 at 16:40
Why doesn’t Bitcoin use UDP to do Blockpropagation?
Awarded May 28, 2022 at 19:40
Can I use Bitcoin to permanently prove that "there exists a file with content at this point of time"?
Awarded May 26, 2022 at 16:55
Why was 21 million picked as the number of bitcoins to be created?
Awarded Feb 23, 2022 at 7:26
How is Bitcoin supposed to serve as currency when it is all but impossible to spend at the moment (12/2017)?
Awarded Feb 15, 2022 at 17:25
How are transactions broadcast to the rest of the network?
Awarded Jan 31, 2022 at 3:03
Can someone please explain FIBRE to me like I'm 5 and why is it useful?
Awarded Jan 11, 2022 at 8:31
Is it possible to convert a taproot address into a native segwit address?
Awarded Dec 28, 2021 at 9:20
Why is it not possible to get the private key out of the public key?
Awarded Dec 16, 2021 at 16:41
What are the potential attacks against ECDSA that would be possible if we used raw public keys as addresses?
Awarded Nov 9, 2021 at 0:32
What is the bitcoind command to send all coins to another address?
Awarded Oct 31, 2021 at 13:42
Why don't the timestamps in the block chain always increase?
Awarded Oct 26, 2021 at 21:56
Where can I access the original, Satoshi written Bitcoin code?
Awarded Oct 11, 2021 at 12:55
What does the curve used in Bitcoin, secp256k1, look like?
Awarded Oct 10, 2021 at 17:51
What is the use case of bitcoind ZeroMQ?
Awarded Sep 17, 2021 at 7:21
What is TxIn's sequence?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 5:46
Is CPU mining even worth it?
Awarded Jul 2, 2021 at 7:15
rpc cookie authentication
Awarded May 26, 2021 at 5:41
What will happen to mining after the 20 999 999th Bitcoin?
Awarded May 6, 2021 at 9:49
Wallet gone and lost recovery phrase, how to get back my bitcoins?
Awarded Apr 20, 2021 at 20:44
Is it possible to get the public key of a bitcoin address I do not have the private keys for with the standard client?
Awarded Apr 10, 2021 at 1:57
How to calculate new "bits" value?
Awarded Mar 30, 2021 at 2:01
Can bitcoins be counterfeited?
Awarded Mar 10, 2021 at 15:27
What happens if I mistype the address when making a payment?
Awarded Mar 4, 2021 at 19:21
How to understand Bitcoin source code
Awarded Feb 26, 2021 at 13:18
Why don't miners charge more for high value transactions?
Awarded Feb 18, 2021 at 14:55
How is it possible to launder bitcoins?
Awarded Feb 18, 2021 at 12:04
How to calculate transaction size before sending (Legacy Non-Segwit - P2PKH/P2SH)
Awarded Feb 16, 2021 at 11:41
Is SegWit a blocksize increase or more efficient use of blockspace?
Awarded Feb 14, 2021 at 18:36
Is each Bitcoin address unique?
Awarded Feb 9, 2021 at 11:16
How can I setup Bitcoin to be anonymous with Tor?
Awarded Jan 29, 2021 at 20:08
How does a client decide which is the longest block chain if there is a fork?
Awarded Jan 23, 2021 at 0:45
How is the whitepaper decoded from the blockchain (Tx with ~1000x m of n multisig outputs)
Awarded Jan 21, 2021 at 10:45
Get non-wallet transactions using bitcoin rpc (gettransaction)
Awarded Jan 6, 2021 at 16:16
How to get an address's balance with the bitcoin client?
Awarded Jan 4, 2021 at 21:35
Does bitcoin miner heat as much as a heater
Awarded Dec 22, 2020 at 10:51
What are the safety guidelines for using the Sign Message feature?
Awarded Dec 17, 2020 at 17:07
What's the difference between a wallet and an address?
Awarded Dec 13, 2020 at 22:35
Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?
Awarded Nov 23, 2020 at 9:47
Is there a 'BTC Refund Department'?
Awarded Nov 20, 2020 at 22:57
What is the difference between the rpc port 8332 and port 8333?
Awarded Aug 12, 2020 at 19:31
How do you derive the private key from two signatures that share the same k value?
Awarded Jul 19, 2020 at 13:32
Why do miners go offline?
Awarded Jul 2, 2020 at 18:33
Does blockchain without currency make any sense?
Awarded Jun 28, 2020 at 8:10
How big is the UTXO database?
Awarded Jun 7, 2020 at 2:43
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