Questions tagged [address]
This tag should be used for Bitcoin addresses. A Bitcoin address is an encoding of the hash of an ECDSA public key or a script. Knowledge of this value allows a user to send Bitcoins to another person over the network. Bitcoin addresses begin with a '1', '3', or 'bc1'. Not to be confused with mailing addresses or IP addresses.
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Libbitcoin - Failing to generate correct wallet addresses from ypub and zpub
I am playing with Libbitcoin and I want to calculate addresses from xpub, ypub and zpub. Whatever I do though I cannot generate correct addresses from ypub or zpub. I don't have problems with xpub.
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Regex for validating xpubs
I am wondering if someone can help me with regex for validating all types xpubs like:
xpub (mainnet P2PKH or P2SH)
ypub (mainnet P2WPKH in P2SH)
Ypub (mainnet P2WSH in P2SH)
zpub (mainnet P2WPKH)
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How to convert script_pub_key of type pubkey to public_key
This is a recurring question (see Parse the output field of getrawtransaction to generate a common address hash ), but I have a different spin.
Consider the following scriptPubKey field:
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Parse the output field of getrawtransaction to generate a common address hash
Consider the following coinbase transaction:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/d70ae1131d433b655d0faeae1db4efa15bb4138f1e38e60a53073a58ea1dcc34
How we can retrieve the recipient address, i.e. ...
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Can we consider all these satoshi-era wallet being re-activated a good or bad thing for Bitcoin? [closed]
More and more I am seeing news about addresses that was dormant for around 10 years being (re)activated.
Is it positive or negative for bitcoin in the long run ?
Also, how many of those dormant ...
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Parsing P2SH address from output script
I have already looked at link.
I am trying to generate P2SH address from output script but no luck. I am using transaction 40eee3ae1760e3a8532263678cdf64569e6ad06abc133af64f735e52562bccc8 for testing ...
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Help decoding transaction on bitcoin testnet
I'm trying to learn more about bitcoin and I'm trying to decode a transaction I made to myself on testnet and I can't seem to figure out a couple of things
Here is the output of getrawtransaction:
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Is there any hope for Bitcoins mined in early 2009? [duplicate]
Back in 2009, on the advice of a friend, I started mining Bitcoin.
I also remember the exact period.
It was in the period from the end of March 2009. until May 31, 2009.
That year, on May 31, I moved ...
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I used support bitcoin wallet address by mistake! How do I get that back to put into my wallet
New to bitcoin and I use their support Bitcoin wallet address instead of using my wallet. How do I get those funds back?
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Can I always set the first byte to 0x02 with the following implementation?
I've followed this tutorial on generating a Public Private key pair value and generating a valid Bitcoin address.
But one part makes me wonder if the implementation is done correctly which is the ...
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blank address in tx_out.csv when vout type is witness_v0_keyhash
"value": 0.01858989,
"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 6e877fae4ef357f80b21e75b262bfe30e7f6ee8c OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
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Witness Version bech32 and P2TR
I don't fully understand the meaning of the witness version byte. I am not sure if I confuse the address format prefix bc1 with the witness version.
My understanding: The extra byte reserved for the ...
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existing solution to build a bitcoin address-balance index
I've a full node running in a AWS vm. I want to develop an app which would be able to provide balance for a given btc address. I know blockchain.info and blockexplorer.com exists but I want to do my ...
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What time of encryption from late 2000s contains house, smileyface, squares, letters and numbers?
Have a encrypted password or key typed to paper, i vaguely remember doing it, not sure if note pad was involved or some site , i remeber something about sha-2 , and sha- 256, and why i should use one ...
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What are These Long Addresses in the Loyce.com Address List?
I'm trying to understand Bitcoin address encodings. I understand there's three (four?) different address encodings P2PKH, P2SH, Bech32, and Bech32m (Bech32m just uses a different constant when XORing)....
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How can i recover my specific wallet using the 12 word mnemonic?
I just can't understand how can i use the 12 words instead of writing all the numbers related to the address/private/public keys. When i go to iancoleman.io the output is several addresses, private ...
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Can a wallet start with 20 and how can it be generated?
Someone claims a wallet can start with 2 on btc mainnet. How possible is dat. I knw 2 is the testnet pay 2 script wallet type. If its possible. How can it be generated?attached is an example of the ...
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How does a recipient share his/her address with a sender?
Person A wants to send some bitcoins to Person B. How will Person A come to know about the Person B's address? And for every transaction Person B's address (as well as Person A's) changes. How will ...
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How many characters of an address do I actually need to verify?
Let's assume I want to verify the receive address on the phone. The recipient confirms the first M and last N characters of the address. How big is the computational effort for an attacker to create a ...
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Why P2SH seems to be never smaller than 34 characters, unlike P2PKH?
Why base58 of P2SH invoice address seems to be never smaller than 34
characters; unlike base58 of P2PKH invoice address, in which 33 characters
is very common?
Bitcoin wiki tells (format and emphasis ...
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Identify original exchange from Bitcoin address on my ledger
Hi I am being asked to prove which exchange I bought Bitcoin on from several years ago. I have the BTC address on my ledger. Is it possible to trace backwards?
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Signature doesn't prove that the owner of a Private Key produced a given message
Let's assume I am a developer of Bitcoin wallet.
If I create a private key without implementing a seed phrase methodology (not using the principles of BIP32 and BIP39), is there at least the slightest ...
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Specifying delivery addresses on channel closes - includes force closes?
In https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/07_payment_channels.asciidoc
We see this block of text:
Typically the addresses used in this cooperative close transaction are
generated freshly for ...
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Script type test vectors
I'm looking for test vectors, assuming xpub or public key to derive various script type addresses out of it. Something along the line of https://bip32jp.github.io/english/ but not only for P2PKH, but ...
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Trace Bitcoin Fund Flows When There Are Multiple Input and Output Addresses
I'm trying to analyze transaction data and wondering if there's a way to tell how much was transferred from one wallet address to another when there are multiple inputs and outputs for one transaction....
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Accessing Bitcoin wallet with bitcoin address [duplicate]
In 2017 I created a bitcoin account and forgot all about it. I have the bitcoin address key though. Is there anyway I can recover the bitcoin wallet now?
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Bitcoin Core v.0.14. doesn't recognise recipient address starting bc1
I have some problem with sending Bitcoin from Bitcoin Core v.0.14. When entering the address in recipient field it becomes red. And I noticed that the address to which the translation needs to be made ...
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How to protect my private key from an unexpected new owner of the address that already belongs to me?
I understand that the situation I am describing is unlikely (because we have 1.46 Quindecillion possible Bitcoin addresses), but let's imagine that someone generated the same address as mine.
Is there ...
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Static Wallet Address
How do I make my account static so the address stays the same. The bitcoin wallet address keeps changing and I need to figure out how to make it stay the same
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Nonstandard Address in BigQuery
Is anyone else seeing this output when they use BigQuery? There are a lot of addresses marked as nonstandard.
This is an open issue on bitcoin-etl, but I’m not sure how to fix it. Does anyone have ...
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How can I get transction destination address from raw transaction data?
I am writing a program that reads Bitcoin transactions from .blk files and performs some analysis on them. I would like to get transaction destination address (like in some transaction explorers: link....
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My transaction is in review for over 24hrs on blockchain, I want to cancel it
Please I want to cancel my in review transaction on blockchain. How will I go about it. Please help me,I need answers as soon as possible.
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Why does Bitcoin Core support a transaction index but not an address index?
Bitcoin Core has the CLI option -txindex to maintain a full transaction index for RPC calls. That sounds useful for some use cases, like for a blockchain explorer. It seems perfectly logical then that ...
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Nothing-Up-My-Sleeve BTC Addresses [duplicate]
I've been researching some crypto related concepts and came across "Nothing-Up-My-Sleeve Numbers" and from what I understand I can generated a Bitcoin address that basically comes with an ...
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Why is this burn address starting to get confirmations?
Can anyone explain why the burn address
1111111111111111111114oLvT2 started receiving confirmations only on 8th June? 1st transaction is 11yrs?
I thought a burn address doesn't get any confirmations, ...
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convert from public address format to raw transaction format
So I am trying to full understand how to decode transactions. In the dev docs it discusses a raw transaction: https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/transactions.html
in the paragraph "TxOut: A ...
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Payout address format has changed?
When I run bitcoin-qt, it sets up a default wallet. When I ask it for the recipient address for this wallet, I was expecting something like 1FGasdfasdfasdf123asdfasdf. However what it actually ...
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Creating multiple bitcoin receipt wallet
Suppose I want to send 10 000 sats to 10 different "receipt" address so that I own the 10 private keys associated with these addresses and can distribute them, the fact that the receiver ...
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Why are the addresses in the same block in bitcoin and bitcoin cash different?
Bitcoin cash is a hard fork of bitcoin which means that before a certain block number (478558 according to Wikipedia) the blocks are the same for both bitcoin cash and bitcoin. I was looking at one of ...
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Is Bitcoin a scam or safe to invest in [duplicate]
Is bitcoin a fraud/scam? If not, why are there people constantly calling it a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme or other things similar? Does this indicate that these things have something in common in ...
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Support for P2WSH-wrapped P2TR addresses
Given that Taproot addresses use a new SegWit version and a new address encoding (bech32m), it's reasonable to expect a transition from the ecosystem to this new address version similar to what we saw ...
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How do I find out where my bitcoins got sent to? [duplicate]
I withdrew bitcoin from my account in Binance in 2018 and still have the email they sent with address it said it sent to,18bVuA2FxDdz5gE4qf9MgbsNxp2F46PaLD
The time and amount looked correct. Now I ...
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Is it possible to find additional key pairs resulting in the same address that I already control?
I'm not really well versed in the necessary terminology to get the answer I need from searching.
As I understand, there are 2^160 possible addresses, and 2^256 possible private keys, so each address ...
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Validate Bitcoin address using Javascript
I know there is a similar question but its 7 years old and the answer doesn't work. Now, many things have changed, including the addresses themselves. So, is there a js library I can trust that can ...
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How do you generate a Bitcoin wallet by hand?
I am interested in the exact process for generating the various components of a Bitcoin wallet by hand. Specifically, the components I'm interested in are:
Private Key
Public Key
Public Key Hash
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Different address prefixes for different address types / network combinations
I'm working on a bitcoin project, and understand the differences between the wallet address which start with 1, 3, or bc1. I am looking to generate a wallet address that starts with 1.
I have seen the ...
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how do bitcoin nodes detect a transaction?
I have a number of question about bitcoin but I was ask to do specific research on two questions and I figured this would be a good place to start. The first I have answered already the second is: &...
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Destination address/transaction keeps switching
So, a few weeks ago I sent a BTC transaction out of my atomic wallet with stupidly low fee. Realised my mistake and have been been waiting on it dropping out since. Finally showed back in my wallet so ...
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Safe way to create a mnemonic and address in golang
I have been looking over internet in the different repos of btcsuite but had no luck in finding a way to generate a 12 word mnemonic and convert this to an address using the go language. It needs also ...
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Is https://wincoindc.com is a scam website? [duplicate]
I was scammed by https://wincoindc.com. One of whatsapp user from China asked me for investment on CDC coin in wincoindc.com wallet. So I sent her BTC and she gave other coin in wincoindc.com wallet. ...
