Questions tagged [bip]
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal - a design document providing information to the Bitcoin community, or describing a new feature for Bitcoin or its processes or environment.
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What is this || notation in BIP 341?
SHA256(SHA256(tag) || SHA256(tag) || x)
What is the || notation? Is this the conjunction of the different elements? Bitwise OR? or modulus?
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Does BIP-069 use littleEndian for txid comparison?
BIP-69 writes the following about how inputs should be ordered:
Previous transaction hashes (in reversed byte-order) are to be sorted in ascending order, lexicographically.
But then, in the examples ...
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BIP 32 Root key for connecting wallets
I have a question, a broker Xeroxfx.org asked me to create the BIP 32 RK to connect wallets for a quicker transaction. Is this real, or can he now steal from my wallet?
THX
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Why wasn't P2SH-wrapped P2WPK added to any BIP?
Pieter Wuille wrote this:
There is no such thing as P2WPK; the only valid witness v0 programs are P2WPKH (OP_0 + hash160 of pubkey) or P2WSH (OP_0 + sha256 of script).
But I don't understand the ...
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Potential new BIP Proposal?
I’ve been working on a project which will help manufacturers of physical products and NFT makers to distribute their NFTs in the real world. My solution is to box up a paper wallet loaded with the NFT....
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Easier way of backing up/remembering a bitcoin private key
This is a bit of a general question, knowing already of HD wallets and the mnemonic system for creating, backing-up and using the bitcoin blockchain.
However say you have for example a cold/paper ...
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Which merged mining method is preferable? What is the latest specification/practice?
If I'm right, there are at least two methods for miners to include a reference hash to a merge mined block in the coinbase transaction:
Commitment hash in an OP_RETURN out put in the coinbase ...
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BIP-330 test cases
Are there any test cases for BIP-330 "Transaction announcements reconciliation"? More specifically, I need some test cases for the serialization/deserialization of the new p2p messages, ...
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Is every BIP actually a small fork?
What precisely do we consider as fork?
It seems that every BIP can be seen as a fork, at least a soft fork since a lot of BIPs indeed are backward compatible. How big or impactful something has to be ...
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Cloned litecoin - mweb issue, "bad-txns-vin-empty", getblocktemplate isn't working [closed]
I've cloned litecoin 0.21, trying to create a new coin. It was running well until block 1439. Then, miners stopped working because getblocktemplate was returning this:
CreateNewBlock: ...
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What is the compact_size function used in BIP341?
BIP341 uses a function named compact_size in two instances: when constructing the tapleaf hash, it takes as input the size of the spending script, and when constructing the signature message, if the ...
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Where are BIPs 40 and 41?
I can't find documentation about BIP 40 or BIP 41 anywhere on the web. The list of BIPs shows that they are by Marek Palatinus, but there are no links to them.
BIP 0040 is about the Stratum wire ...
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Criteria for Bitcoin protocol consolidation/freezing at the network level (full nodes)
In the Bitcoin development process, there exists the following high-level structure of control:
Anyone can submit a BIP that aims to change Bitcoin Core
The BIP must be approved by an editor
The BIP ...
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What solutions were suggested to improve BIP process in Sep 2021 meeting?
What solutions were suggested to improve BIP process and avoid controversies in future by different developers in last meeting?
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how to get masterkey and consequent wallet keys from root seed?
So basically i am trying to create my own crypto wallet application in python, i have generated the random entropy, calculated the checksum, generated the 12 words and then generated the root seed ...
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Why have a BIP process at all? Why should we store BIPs in a single repo?
Why do we have a BIP process? It seems like unnecessary centralization and introduces gatekeepers (BIP editors) and bottlenecks (BIP editors need to merge new BIPs and changes to BIPs). If something ...
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Under the existing BIP process what ability do the BIP editors have to prevent bad ideas being BIPed and/or low quality BIPs?
Under the existing BIP process (BIP 2) what ability do the BIP editors have to prevent bad ideas being BIPed and/or BIPs becoming especially low quality or biased?
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Does the reference client Bitcoin Core determine the consensus rules?
Does the reference client Bitcoin Core determine the consensus rules? Why should we care what is in the BIP if when there is a discrepancy between the BIP and the Core codebase (like we saw recently ...
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Why were some BIPs marked as Rejected before expiry deadline defined in BIP-2?
BIP-2 says:
BIPs should be changed from Draft or Proposed status, to Rejected status, upon request by any person, if they have not made progress in three years.
However, some BIPs were marked as ...
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How many BIPs were adopted in the standard client in 2021?
With taproot, a number of longstanding BIPs were merged into the Bitcoin standard client/consensus protocol - BIP341, BIP340, and BIP342. However, the Bitcoin repository BIPS index is unclear on when ...
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Which "address" should be used when wallet is made with iancoleman page?
If I have generated / choosen the 12 word memnonic with bip39 here
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
which address I should fill in Binance as the destination address when withdrowing coins?
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Where does a Client in Bitcoin Read From?
I can understand how Bitcoin replication mechanism work profoundly (i.e. the write operations). However, I don't understand the read operation from a client's point of view (a client is called a user ...
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What is a safe amount of characters in a passphrase?
The coldcard and trezor both has support for a passphrase. What amount of characters in this passphrase that would be considered unbreakable with current technology and within some years of ...
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How to properly compute the BIP39 checksum bytes?
I'm trying to understand the logic of generating a valid BIP-39 seed phrase. I have read the BIP-39 and trying to implement the section Generating the mnemonic step by step. I have the following ...
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Can we benefit from Collatz conjecture-based proof of work?
Can we benefit from Collatz conjecture proof of work to enhance bitcoin utility?
F Bocart 2018:"Inflation Propensity of Collatz Orbits: A New Proof-of-Work for Blockchain Application" argues ...
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Should full node provide BIP 157/158 services?
As an educational exericse I have a new 22.0 full node using tor onion-only. Of the 18 outbound connections, one is to a peer which offers COMPACT_FILTERS BIP 158 service. (I got the name from a list ...
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Why BIP32 derive address does not match with BIP39?
How is that the same xPub rsults different address in BIP32 and BIP39? :)
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How to derive public child keys from public parent keys with bip39-libs.js?
I red this doc: https://howieliux.github.io/assets/others/Mastering_bitcoin/Mastering_Bitcoin.html
and found:
As mentioned previously, a very useful characteristic of HD wallets is the ability to ...
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Why is coinbase mentioned in a BIP?
I thought that BIPs were similar to Pythons PIPs. So I was confused when I read BIP 34 mentioning coinbase explicitly. The author, Gavin Andresen, seems not to have a connection to coinbase.
I thought ...
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Could a Multi-Chain Bitcoin Help the issue of Scaling?
This question falls under the heading of "shower thoughts" that are Generally discouraged in the bitcoin-dev list.
I hope this is the right forum.
I have been running my full node for a few ...
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Trouble deriving a BIP 32 Child Key
I have a small Python program I'm writing to generate BIP32 keys, including child keys. I've gotten to the point where I can correctly generate a master extended key pair, but I'm not able to ...
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HD Wallet with BIP44 - workaround of deriving public keys knowing only a xpub
My goal: I don't want to require a private key to hierarchically derive new addresses.
Sure, I can create a batch of addresses, given a private key, at first. But once I have surpassed that batch I'll ...
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In what year and in which Bitcoin improvement proposal Opcodes such as OP_MODE have been disabled?
On Bitcoin wiki several opcodes are listed as "disabled".
My question is simple: which Bitcoin improvement proposal proposed to disable them, and when they have effectively been disabled in ...
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Why is BIP133 listed as 'Draft' when it has been implemented for years?
BIP133 is listed as 'Draft' but it has been implemented since v.0.13.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki
Is there anything preventing it from being labelled as 'Final'?
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Advanced math operations in TapScript?
Hence BIP 342 proposes to enable opcodes like OP_MOD, OP_DIV, OP_MUL is it possible to perform advanced math operations like EC point addition/multiplication in a script size of up to 10kB?
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Links for websites that were used to show miners signaling support for segwit
Anyone got links for websites that were used to show miners signaling support for segwit? or screenshots?
Also wanted to confirm if my assumptions are correct about the whole thing:
Initially BIP 9 ...
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Why is BIP32 root key different for different standards(purposes)?
When generating key on https://iancolemen.com/bip39/, the BIP32 Root Key changes as I change the derivation path tab, e.g. BIP32, BIP44, BIP39 etc. Why is this the case? Isn't BIP32 Root Key the m at ...
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Any website that explains most of the BIPs in a different way that newbies can understand better?
Almost everything about all the BIPs is explained on github : https://github.com/bitcoin/bips still looking for a website that explains them differently (simple language, diagrams, history, ...
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Why was the BIP33 ("Stratized Nodes") never implemented?
What are the technical reasons that BIP33 was never implemented ?
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Is there an active list of BIPs currently open for voting?
How can a miner know from which two (or more) BIPs they can choose when they are about to vote? Is there a list of currently active BIPs for voting?
Thanks!
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How does a miner put his vote for certain BIP?
I understand that a miner is the only one who can vote for a certain BIP, but I'm wondering, how do they technically do that? How do they submit their vote? I found out that they are doing it through ...
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Is there already reached consensus on network upgrades like Taproot, Submarine Swaps?
I have read about some very interesting new protocol amendments. I am not asking for their explanations, but would be great if anyone explained their current status, if they are still considered to ...
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What are the different upgradeability features in the BIP-Taproot (BIP 341) proposal?
What are the different upgradability features in the BIP-Taproot (BIP 341) proposal?
Why are there so many upgradability paths? Is there something an annex can do that a leaf version can't?
This ...
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How are the prefixes for EXT_PUBLIC_KEY and EXT_PRIVATE_KEY derived?
I want to know how the prefixes for EXT_PUBLIC_KEY and EXT_PRIVATE_KEY are derived. For example in bitcoin you have:
base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,0);
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How to get bitcoin bip32 public key from private key?
I need to know how to get the corresponding public key of a private key in hd-wallets, I don't need the derived ones but the public key who is related to the private I got. If there is an algorithm ...
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Tips for child key derivation
I am trying to make the child key derivation using the extended keys of the BIP32 document (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0032). Assuming that an extended key is only a base58 encoded serialization ...
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BIP34, BIP66 and BIP65 should have been enforced at unique block heights. Why do different sources claim different block heights for enforcement?
Inconsistent Consensus/Activation of BIPs
BIP34
Activated Block Height 227,835 (BitMEX Reference)
Activated Block Height 227,930 (Bitcoin Developer Reference)
Activated Block Height 227,931 (...
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Why is the bitcoin client still in beta
As of today the official bitcoin core version is 0.19.1 why has it not go to 1.0 version yet ?
Is there a timeline from the developer team ?
I have seen this similar question from 8 years ago:
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Is it yet possible to send a message to the wallet which receives Bitcoin when making a transaction?
I wish to be able to do something like this:
bitcoin://anaddressgoeshere?message_to_wallet_owner=Keep+up+the+good+work,+dude!
After clicking that link, which opens the user's Bitcoin Core wallet, ...
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Bruteforcing a seed with 24 words of a unknown order
How much time would it take to brute force a seed that we know all of its words but also that is completely shuffled? I ask this because the old Trezor model asks for seed in a shuffled way but still ...
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