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Help analyzing this color coded hexdump of the Bitcoin blockchain

Sample of genesis, growth, and current height Sample of the latter part and the end of blk02655.dat. This probably covers parts of the last 10000 blocks. Process here: https://twitter.com/...
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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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How can i import my wallet with old address

I had a bitcoin wallet and I have seed phrase but when I use it I can't access all my old wallet's addresses I read that I can use this site: https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ I actually used it and ...
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Suppose crypto is adopted globaly, and 100 years pass. Where would 100 years worth of global transactions/smart contracts be stored?

To my novice understanding the blockchain is stored on all participating computers in the network. is this to say each computer has the entire chain downloaded onto the hard drive? Or do we merely ...
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Bitcoin BTC wallet receive addresses

I want to create 100 to 500 to 1000 BTC receive addresses. It should not expire. Is it possible ? Is it possible in Bitcoin core ?
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What if a pool of computers are used to attack a blockchain and modify it in 51% of the network? [duplicate]

I mean if a large computer pool is used to attack a blockchain and modify the copy of the blockchain in 51% of computers in the network. Then due to consensus, the faulty blockchain will be replicated ...
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TRACING A TRANSACTION [duplicate]

Thanks in advance for your answers. In 2017 I invested in bitcoin without any experience or knowledge of the processes involved. I have records of the transactions through Coinjar but don't know where ...
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Says "confirmed" but never received [duplicate]

I sent someone bitcoin through cash app and it says confirmed but the recipient said they never received it, is there a reason this could be happening? Or is there a way for me to get it back from the ...
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Blockchain not letting me send all of my bitcoin (Please help) [closed]

I've been using blockchain for the past couple years and i have received lots of transactions (daily) for the past time. Today i decided to have them transferred to a Trading app which I've always ...
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Noob question: Why is there not a limit of the number of blocks in a chain revision?

I have a noob idea and I want to understand where I'm going wrong :) Say nodes agreed on a block revision limit, say, 6. This would mean that if they see an incoming chain that is longer than the ...
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fatal error using Win Bitcoin core to create node

It ran about 10 hours, loaded 70% of blockchain, now always this error in debug.log on restart 2021-06-21T14:11:58Z ERROR: ReadBlockFromDisk: Errors in block header at FlatFilePos(nFile=1801, nPos=...
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Python code error : Hash greater than Target

While trying to run a reference code from GitHUb i am getting an error "Cannot Mine-Hash is greater than Target". As i am just a beginner with coding i am not able to figure this out. Kindly ...
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Should I share my seed phrase to earn airdrop tokens?

Someone on Face Book said I could earn free crypto by appying for an airdrop. He told me to download Blockchain from app store to my phone. I did this and created my account with a password. I also ...
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Scenario: What would happen to Bitcoin if the internet would crash - world wide [duplicate]

What would happen to Bitcoin if the internet or power would be shut down for a moment, all over the world? Would this destroy Bitcoin or other block chain based money or technology?
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Are multiple parents/children possible in a block?

I always learnt/thought bitcoin blockchain is like a linked list and it can have only one parent and one child at max
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Can I merge blockchain downloads?

I downloaded the most recent 15GB of the Bitcoin blockchain. But I also have a back up from a year ago when I downloaded some more. Can I merely copy the old blockchain files into ~/.bitcoin and have ...
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Delay of a revocable transaction in the Lightning Network

The Lightning Network Whitepaper describes the concept of Revocable Sequence Maturity Contracts (RSMC), which allows a commitment transaction to be revoked during a predefined delay after the channel ...
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Isn't burning bitcoins a kind of fraud?

BitCoin burning is the process by which digital currency miners and developers can remove bitcoins from circulation, thereby slowing down inflation rates or reducing the total circulating supply of ...
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Understanding paper bitcoin wallets [duplicate]

I'm doing a project on bitcoin and have no idea what is expected of me. The question asks to create a public address and private key to unlock, and then to move on to the private wallet (this is using ...
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Tracing Blockchain.com Wallet-ID from Receiver Address. Address Re-use

I am wanted to question related to blockchain.com ? If i have some one BTC to BTC receiver address can i trace name or wallet id or something? For example if i generate multiple btc to btc receiver ...
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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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Bitcoinj Doesn't increase wallet value

this is the initialization of wallet and block and PeerGroup : Wallet wallet = new Wallet(params, KeyChainGroup.createBasic(params)); BlockChain chain = new BlockChain(params, wallet, new ...
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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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Where and how are raw transactions stored on the blockchain?

My understanding is that transactions are stored on the blockchain in double hashed format: ie SHA256(SHA256(rawtransaction)). But it is also possible to get access to the raw transaction. This means ...
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Developing a Bitcoin POS (Payment Page) - How do I identify the transaction

This is probably a basic question but I can not find an answer. We are developing a BTC payment process for a Point-of-Sale. We have managed to build this fine and can make requests (QR code) for a ...
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Bitcoin in wallet transactions but not on the blockchain (old wallet)

I've been checking old wallets and found an unconfirmed transaction that's on the wallet but not on the blockchain transaction id (missing from blockchain) ...
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I have 12 phrase recovery code for bitcoin wallet [closed]

I have 12 phrase recovery code for bitcoin wallet and I use it for purchased shop and for every deposit generate a new wallet now I restore my 12 word to blockchain and electrum and exodus and … but ...
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what happens to low-fee or forgotten transactions

If a transaction has a fee that is too low then it is possible for the transaction to either age out of the mempool (14 days) or get removed because the mempool reaches its max size. So what happens ...
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What can I do if someone obtained control of my blockchain wallet?

I fell for a bitcoin scam and I would like to undestand what are the risk associated to it. i established contact with scammer on instgram he convinced me to join the mining pool i had to create a new ...
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Why do transactions have to be bundled in a block? Why not mine single transactions separately?

Why do transactions have to be bundled in a block? Why not mine single transactions separately? What is the advantage of bundling transactions in a block? Also are there any blockchains/decentralized ...
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How does Bitcoin verify that a user owns the bitcoins he/she spent?

I'm making my own blockchain based currency for a school project and kind of hit a roadblock. I have a wallet class which initializes with zero coins. What prevents the user from just sending a ...
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Money sent to wallet was removed in unexpected second transaction 30 minutes later

I got sent bitcoins to my cake address then the coins went into the account as unconfirmed for about half an hour then they were sent to another address, and the confirmations have finished and i dont ...
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Why must the entire chain be included in calculations if it's already been validated. Why can't the validated portions be archived to save energy? [duplicate]

I'm new to this so don't laugh. If all of the previous transactions in a blockchain have been validated as authentic, why does the entire chain have to be carried forward in the calculations? Why ...
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How can one join and leave Blockchain network? [duplicate]

As a newbie, it seems a bit abstract for me to imagine how Blockchain works! I'm curious that how my friends and I can join a Blockchain network? When we don't want to stay, can we silently leave and ...
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What is the Optimal block size based on 90 percentile block propogation delay?

We can have pruned nodes that can verify blocks and transactions so the block size can be increased without leading to the centralization of block verification. But if we increase block size then ...
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What is the meaning of difficulty in Bitcoin mining?

I'm a beginner in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology, so I have a question after reading about the difficulty in Bitcoin mining: What does the difficulty actually mean? I read that A high difficulty ...
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Some technical questions about Bitcoin [closed]

I'm a developer. I've read a lot about Bitcoin structure and how it works. But yet something confuse me. I would like to share them with you and read your answers: When a miner solves a block, how ...
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Forced fork of older, low difficulty blocks

Let’s assume main chain (A) height is 1000 and the difficulty adjustment is 50 blocks. At height 450, the difficulty is very small. By modifying timestamp of blocks 450-500, I mine a fork (B) such ...
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If nonce can change the hash then it should be changing the next block's previous hash?

I am studing blockhain and i know that a block hash is linked to the next block in previous hash and it cant be changed for valid reason. Reason is : because if someone have changed hash then then he/...
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Submitting new block to blockchain

Supposed that I have managed to mine a new block that meets all requirements successfully by building my own script that can collect transactions and add them to new block and hashing the new block ...
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Is there a way to change Bitcoin Open Source code to be more Environmentally friendly?

If Bitcoin is open source as proponents mention, why can't make Bitcoin as environmentally friendly as Ripple, Dogecoin, Cardono etc? Elon Musk tanked the market by mentioning Dogecoin is More ...
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What exactly is a "blockchain developer"?

Hello everyone. This isn't specifically a bitcoin thread but due to recent events I think it is important that people get an understanding of the real Elon Musk as I have no doubt he will try and ...
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Get/Calculate Address

I'm currently using a program that analyses the block files. It splits all the stuff into multiple .csv files. Is there any method I can do to get the addresses & amount sent/received from tx_in ...
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If there are a significant number of pruned nodes on the network will it impact network security?

The size of the Bitcoin blockchain is reaching 350 MB and adding more than 60GB per year. I feel verification node centralization a risk if the cost of storage does not drop. My question 1: Is using ...
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Where can I turn the unique hash result of SHA256 to bitcoin?

i watched on youtube from 3Brown1Blue channel about "how bitcoin works", it said what makes bitcoin valued is come from the unique hash result of SHA256. for example if someone put string to ...
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why do i lost my bitcoin on blockchain wallet without forgetting private key?

This is the first time to use Blockchain and send my bitcoin into it. But i was sent into private key wallet address and store it. Next day, when i was login my wallet and say wrong password . So i ...
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How transaction happen in blockchain?

Suppose there is a cryptocurrency with a chain of 5 blocks. When users trading with this cryptocurrency, then:- how the buy and sell will be going to happen i.e. Which block will make the transaction ...
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Are trades done on exchanges added to blocks?

I found a few answers to this question here, here, and here, but my doubts weren't cleared. Are trades done on exchanges added to blocks? Or are they only added once you withdraw the funds to your own ...
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Bitcoin Fraud/Recovery Protocol Proposals

Does Bitcoin plan to implement any Fraud/Loss Prevention in their protocol? I just read a story of how Brokerage Exchange Shapeshift, and Internal Employee stealing private keys from their customers. ...
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Why is the full blockchain required, effectively forever?

I do understand that every block is validated in terms of the blocks before it by way of the previous block's hash, all the way back to the genesis block. However, could the protocol be modified such ...

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