Questions tagged [address]
Tells a user how to pay a recipient. Bitcoin addresses are strings consisting of numbers and letters that begin with '1', '3', or 'bc1'. Addresses encode the recipient's output script that includes either a public key or a hash of a public key or script. Bitcoin addresses should not be confused with mailing addresses or IP addresses.
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How to get a receiving address from Bitcoin Wallet app?
So, I'm trying to obtain my winnings from this online casino OZWIN CASINO, which is based out of Australia, and I'm located in the United States. Problem is that I've never used Bitcoin and I've just ...
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Locate bitcoin from 11+ years ago
I bought bitcoin along time ago. It was at minimum 11 years ago. My bitcoin purchase info was emailed.
I remember the following after buying: getting an email which indicated the bitcoin info. I ...
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Is it possible to search for an address (rather than a transaction ID) in the bitcoin mempool?
Is it possible to search pending bitcoin transactions by their "to" address?
I looked at several mempool navigator/explorer type services and they all seem to allow searching by transaction ...
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Why are bitcoin and ordinal wallet addresses different?
I am trying to research and learn about Bitcoin Ordinals, BRC20 and SRC20. However, there is one point I'm stuck on. While we have a single address in all Blockchain networks, why do we have separate ...
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Can i send bitcoin from one address in wallet with multiple addresses?
I have a btc backup wallet.dat file. I dumped the file with pywallet.py using python. I now have the wallet.txt showing all my addresses (Legacy) with their private keys in that wallet. So there are ...
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get source address of a transaction
I have been conducting research on the web and Bitcoin Stack Exchange to find a method for obtaining the source address of a transaction. I have come across multiple answers, some suggesting the use ...
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Stuck dissecting a P2PKH Bitcoin transaction, what am I doing wrong?
I'm attempting to dissect a P2PKH transaction based on guidance from Rene Pickhardt's video (link). At around the 2:54 minute mark, he calculates the Bitcoin Address from the input. I'm interested in ...
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I need to get BTC addresses from a 12 word phrase, but I don't understand what to do next
I need an algorithm for translating a 12-word phrase to BTC SegWit bech32 P2WPKH addresses.
I wrote a function in Python that returns a seed, but I don't understand what to do next. Here when entering ...
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Does bitcoin transaction have source address?
I know that bitcoin transaction is based on UTXO, including input script and output script. But recently I browse bitcoin explorer and I found it listed source addresses of a transaction. I wonder ...
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NodeJS code to deobfuscate chainstate data
I am currently working on a Blockchain trading platform for a company and I want to have all the unspent output saved to a local database by reading the contents of chainstate folder but I couldn't ...
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Get utxos for an address without rescanning the whole chain
In order to gather the utxos for an address importdescriptors will rescan the blockchain. Is there another way to get all the utxos for an address / descriptor without having to rescan the block chain?...
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Why are some bc1 addresses 42 characters and others 62 characters in Base58?
The length of bc1 Bitcoin addresses varies between 42 and 62 characters in Base58 encoding. What causes this difference in character count?
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what are some addresses of stores in massachusetts to use bitcoin currency? [duplicate]
What are some addresses of stores in Massachusetts to use bitcoin currency?
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How to use the base58 in c++
its been a while after i done with my python bitcoin miner
And i realize that python is slower to do mining stuff, so i decided to rebuild it in c++ as you guys know c++ the faster than other ...
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Blockchain API not sending subscribed info
I'm having trouble receiving WebSocket messages for address-related events. Here is the code that I'm using (trackAddress gets called externally and I'm sure it sends the right thing). I also tried ...
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Move p2pk with addresses
This is strange for me that there exist over 30 000 of p2pk with addresses mainly with very high balance and these funds weren't moved yet. There are Linux tools to scan blockchain for them and note ...
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How can I track my bitcoins to the blockchain?
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question; I'm just trying to learn more about Bitcoin and the blockchain. How would I identify the bitcoins that are mine within the blockchain? I can use Trezor to ...
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I dont remember my wallet address it's been a year and half since I didn't withdraw [duplicate]
Withdrawal I forgotten my wallet address how to discover it
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bitcoin is not showing the correct balance after reusing an address
(i only reused because the first one was a test) Bitcoin core gui is showing a balance lower than the amount on sparrow. Sparrow is connected through my node and showing the correct amounts so I know ...
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Is there any way to look deeper at a specific wallet address to see if it's associated with any other BTC balances
I recently switching mining pools and desktop wallet (Sparrow). In an effort to set the address I sent a small amount of BTC to an address thinking it was my own, in a newly set up Sparrow wallet. ...
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Verifiable way to share knowledge of bitcoin address
I am looking for a simple or standard way (government bureaucrat-proof) to share knowledge of a bitcoin address in a legal contract without revealing the address itself. Having to reveal the address ...
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Closing address of a Lightning channel
I would like to know if it is possible when closing a Lightning channel to specify an address to retrieve other than the default one?
Thank you in advance for the answers.
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Receiving funds in multisig - is it enough to confirm the receive address on every signing device?
If I confirm the receive address displayed in my software wallet matches on EVERY signing device in my multisig setup, can I be confident that any funds sent to that address belong to an address I ...
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How do blockchain explorers know if the address is really generated?
I am studying how the Bitcoin addresses generation works.
As far as I learned, a Bitcoin address appears in the blockchain only after it has been involved in its first transaction. If an address has ...
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How to figure out the output address when there is no "address" key in vout["scriptPubKey"]
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I have a bitcoin core node(v.24), and using bitcoinrpc library.
So, when I am running the getrawtransaction() function, sometimes the vout doesn't have the key "address", and the ...
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Can addresses be linked to "wallets"?
If I have my coins on address A, send it to address B from the same private key, is anyone able to say "these two addresses belong to the same wallet" with certainty? Because of the public ...
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multisig vs singlesig
Due to the Ledger debacle I have purchased a Coldcard hardware wallet. I made this decision partly based on watching the Antonopoulos live stream last week. Until now I have backed up my bitcoin on a ...
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Generate a Bitcoin taproot address with specific prefix for burning assets
I would like to generate a bitcoin taproot address (bc1p) for burning assets. Which means not one would have the private key. But in the mean time I would also want a vanity address (an address start ...
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Import existing address to BIP-32
I would like to know if there is a way to import an existing address (not generated through the BIP-32 protocol and not derived to it) to my BIP-32 master node.
I am using the bitcoinjs-lib library on ...
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In bitcoin core can ScriptToUniv give us wallet address of public key?
a few days ago I created a PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27546
where I proposed ScriptToUniv can give us wallet address of public key But some guy commented
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Get the scriptPubKey from a Taproot address
I have this function that converts a Bitcoin private key as an integer to a public key and an address.
def get_seg_v1_from_pkey(imported_key):
imported_key_toint = int(imported_key)
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Retrieve address corresponding to pubkey using bitcoin-cli/RPC
We are using jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc and in some cases curl to retrieve data from bitcoin core using RPC.
However, for some txns where pubkey is used, bitcoin-cli/rpc gives no address in ...
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Can I use my Coinbase address to receive bitcoin? Why is it shorter than a normal address?
In my Coinbase account, in Manage your profile > Crypto addresses, I can find a Bitcoin address which is 34 characters long. Can I use this as a public address to receive bitcoin from other wallet, ...
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How to explore hardened addresses in bitcoin core descriptor wallet
I created an blank descriptor wallet and imported a xprv key.
importdescriptors '[{ "desc":"wpkh(tpr..../0h/*h)#td3snsa4", "timestamp":"now", "internal&...
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Adding a legacy address to an existing Electrum wallet
Using ledger nano s I created several addresses - native segwit, taproot, legacy, etc.
I sent to one of them a small amount and it shows up.
I later re-created the wallet using the BIP39 phrase in ...
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Which are considered not-for-public fields of the ones returned by getaddressinfo?
Create a new address in a descriptor wallet, then getaddressinfo - a result like the following is output:
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"result": {
"address": "bc1qf...",
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Why distinguish between receiving address and change address
I see receiving address and change address in wallet client and bip44. Why distinguish between receiving address and change address?
What will be the problem if I use only change address chain for ...
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My multibit core synchronization is stuck Whats the reason [duplicate]
For the past six days since I downloaded the multibit core, I wanted to recover my wallet I still have my recovery phrase and password, and open the multibit core and the wallet was synchronization ...
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Cannot Access My Crypto Wallet ( It’s Not the Seed Phrase), maybe derivation path?
Requirement: Recover crypto
What I possess: I have a 12 word seed phrase, (Though I am not exactly sure of the organization that generated it).
I have the public address through which (blockchain.com ...
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How Wallet Mobile Softwares deal with Wallet Balance and Transaction history?
I'm trying to build a mobile software Wallet made in Flutter with a Bitcoin Core Full node that communicates with a Node.js backend.
The problem I can't find the answer to is: how can wallet ...
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Calculating addresses from Bitcoin transaction data
What would be the easiest way to retrieve addresses that are used in specific transaction? For instance, if you look at following transaction which is retrieved by getblock of JSON RPC with argument ...
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What are the OP codes associated with bc1?
As the title says I'm trying to extract bc1 addresses by using opcodes I've found from reading about bitcoin online. However, I cannot actually find the opcodes associated with bc1. The segwit outputs ...
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Why do many of the early bitcoin addresses receive small transactions many years later? [duplicate]
For example...
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1NHHWnZKTetjZZfAbVjTS9EHQafdH6xn8a
...receives a block reward of 50 BTC in 2009 and then transactions in 2019, 2020, 2021 for tiny ...
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Transaction Wallet-Address extraction
When taking a look at the blk.dat files I am confused about how I would go about getting sender(s) and receiver(s). It is clear to me that if I have multiple inputs / outputs that there might be ...
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Retrieving bitcoin address of the receiver of a transaction with bitcoinrpc
I'm trying to write a simple python implementation using bitcoinrpc to extract the address receiving a transaction but...
I'm not sure why certain fields are only accessible inconsistently. E.g. tx['...
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Cant remember what wallet i had electrum mycelium core i remember the address but forgot if it was on a exchange or not is there a way to find out [duplicate]
I have the address I no there is wallet explorer block explorer but I put the address in no luck
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Bitcoin Core Node On Chain Data Addresses Over one Bitcoin
I'm currently running a Bitcoin Core full node on my raspberry pi. I have set the config file to txindex=1 and I want to query the bitcoin network to find out how many addresses hold more than 1 ...
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Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix?
I noticed that signet and testnet both use tb1 addresses. Why doesn't signet use a unique prefix that distinguishes it from testnet?
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What is the standard or best practice for bitcoin wallet address labeling, if any?
Transferring wallet address labels from different wallets is non-trivial today, as there is no standard for this metadata it seems.
Could address labelling be included in wallet config files at ...
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how to hash a bitcoin address for transactions?
can someone tell me how bitcoin hash a btc address?
when you try to hash it on this website, you will get the same result as down below
Bitcoin Address : 1JKRgG4F7k1b7PbAhQ7heEuV5aTJDpK9TS
Result (...