Questions tagged [blockchain]
This tag should be used for questions pertaining to the blockchain. The blockchain is a list of all transactions that have occurred using the Bitcoin currency. It consists of blocks which are linked to each other, and each block consists of transactions. DON'T USE THIS FOR THE SERVICE NAMED 'blockchain.info'!
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Transaction not confirming [duplicate]
My transaction has been pending for almost 2 days what's going on? This is not right it's been long enough. Please let me know what's going on.
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Bitcoin tx with electrum has been unconfirmed for more than 24 hours and cannot be found on blockchain
I tried to sell some BTC yesterday but the coins did not arrive and the tx remained unconfirmed and still is now. When I right click 'view on block explorer' it says 'Transaction not found'.
What can ...
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What is the difference between a 'hot' and 'cold' wallet
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I don't understand the difference between a 'hot' crypto wallet, and a 'cold' crypto wallet.
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My understanding of blockchains is that they use public/private cryptography in order ...
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Bitcoin listreceivedbyaddress as REST API
I am currently looking for a REST API service which will allow me to implement a super simple deposit system.
Currently I am generating bitcoin addresses (mainnet + testnet) via Python. In addition to ...
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Bitcoin Withdrawl [duplicate]
I’ve been contacted by Bridgeway Consult after losing money previously on Forex with a company. I’ve been told my details have been used to hold bitcoin in my name by various people and have been sent ...
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Parsing bitcoin blockchain, get input (vin)
I downloaded the bitcoin blockchain. I have a full node and I would like to do some parsing. I use RPC to send commands to bitcoin core from my Python program. When I get a block it works fine but the ...
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Issue copying blk.dat files
I've been running my node from a 500 GB external SSD but have run out of space to store the blockchain. I am copying files from the SSD to a larger USB 3 thumb drive using the command
rsync -ah --...
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How does the Bitcoin network "tie" bitcoins together to form UTXOs?
How does the Bitcoin network "tie" bitcoins together to form UTXOs? Why doesn't the Bitcoin Network just remember everyone's balance?
What even is a Bitcoin, is it a string of code that can ...
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If the Bitcoin blockchain is immutable, why the Len Sassaman's tribute moved from one block to another?
That was the talk that Dan Kaminsky introduced the tribute and didn't really explained why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIYq3ePaX4&t=502s&ab_channel=DennisMuller
On my full node it doesn'...
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Peer-to-peer - informations about downloading
I would like to know how the software downloads the blockchain. If the bytes write throught the socket and wait until it's written. And If the software asks 16 blocks to each peer in which you're ...
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What needs to be on a USB such that you could hand it to someone and gift them a discrete amount
This may be a very stupid question. I was watching an interview with Nic Carter (https://youtu.be/mDyBbGCiBUU?t=1094). In it he gives Lex a present of a USB with $100 worth of Bitcoin. What is ...
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Proof that blockchain converges to the longest chain [duplicate]
Is there a mathematical proof that shows that blockchain converges to the longest chain? It seems not obvious to me how a scattered group of nodes and transaction signals will eventually converge to a ...
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PHP Blockcypher error validating generated transaction: Error running script for input 0
Attempting to use Blockcypher's /txs/send endpoint using detailed here: https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/#creating-transactions and I'm getting the following error:
Error validating generated ...
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Hello, I'm not new to crypto, but I am quite new to Mining, can someone give me some tips on the best BTC miner as of today?
I am quite afraid of all the things I read on the internet, in seems that there are quite a bit of scams going on and the whole space, specifically crypto mining is quite uncertain.
Anyway, I was ...
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Question about interpreting blockchain.info API return
When looking at e.g. this output, for the "input" entry in first transaction in the block (i.e. always consist of newly generated coins):
"inputs":[{"sequence":4294967295,...
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What are bitcoin Pool APIs?
I contacted a website and asked them where they get their data for crypto like Bitcoin, as I am trying to find the place for the most up to date and reliable data on Bitcoin and other crypto. They had ...
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Bitcoin Transaction [duplicate]
I was able to find an old BTC wallet address that has BTC on it from an old email. The BTC wallet address has BTC on it. The problem is I do not remember the account I used for that BTC address. How ...
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How do cryptocurrency exchanges execute trade without paying gas fees?
How do cryptocurrency exchanges execute trade without paying gas fees?
For example, in Binance, every user has their own wallet address for each coin they owned. Let's say I just traded 1 BTC for 1 ...
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How often does target hash change and how to find it?
So basically I was researching target hash and trying to figure out how I can find it. I know there are posts out there that have said that Bitcoins target hash is a 256 bit number with 32 bits of ...
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Newbie, please help, I'm totally clueless about Bitcoin and the rest of them and I need help [duplicate]
I'm a beginner and I'm new to everything about Bitcoin, crypto and
everything. Please, I need help,anyone??
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Standard library for schnorr signature algorithm
I am trying to create a blockchain demonstration to get used to the technology. The thing is: I want to use Schnorr signatures, but I can't seem to find a library for that, and I want to make sure ...
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What is the fastest way to check balance of multiple BTC address in python
I want to check multiple bitcoin addresses balance in python, can someone suggest a script that can do it fast and without getting api error.
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Is it possible that Lightning Network payments may someday replace all Bitcoin transactions, rendering the block chain obsolete?
To tackle the scalability problem of Bitcoin the lightning network was introduced, which (if I understand correctly) adds an additional layer to the blockchain, allowing users to create a payment ...
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Looking for data: Fee rate Per Transaction
I'm looking for websites (dashboards, charts, etc.) and/or datasets which show,
average daily transaction fees (sat/vB)
average/min/max fees of each block (sat/vB)
Also, what would be the steps to ...
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What is the incentive for a bitcoin node to broadcast the newly received block as fast as possible?
I understand that a bitcoin node will broadcast a new mined block to all the other nodes as quickly as possible so that the other miner nodes can work on the longest chain. But why would a node help ...
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Is timestamping needed for anything except difficulty adjustment
This question asks about the role of timestamping and this answer supports the assertion that the main role is block difficulty adjustment.
On the other hand, the whitepaper claims that ordering ...
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Do you have to pay capital gains tax when selling and immediately buying another cryptocurrency in US?
Is it possible to convert eg. BTC to ETH and pay capital gains tax only when you sell and convert crypto into USD?
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Blockchain Cash Flow Verification - Is this Legit? [duplicate]
I was recently contacted by a financial trading company I once invested $250. They said my investment had grown because they use an auto-trader, but due to account inactivity, wanted to close the ...
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Is Running Bitcoin Core (bitcoind) On Android Termux A Good Idea?
This is what I did:
Before we begin, disable Google Play services and Google Play store to reduce conflict with app on F-Droid.
Decentralization gets us even further with what I figured out.
Install F-...
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How blockchain consensus verify the transaction?
So many blockchain documentation tell that the blockchain uses the consensus to verify transactions. But what I understand the consensus only generate the hash to create the new block. I don't know ...
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Can sent bitcoin be reverted? [duplicate]
Can succesfully sent bitcoin be reverted? The reason was that a fee was needed. The fee will be sent back after transfer is fulfilled?!?
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Is this script a non-standard script?
I am currently reviewing a computer science conference paper. The authors in the paper mention that the following is a non-standard script.
OP_DUP
OP_HASH160
OP_0
OP_EQUALVERIFY
OP_CHECKSIG
But when I ...
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Bitcoin transactions towards and from a Taproot
I am trying to solve a problem that was given to me as study material for a coding test. The problem requests the following:
Create two Bitcoin transactions in testnet, one spending towards a
Taproot ...
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Blockchain file
I'm trying to get a better understanding of how Bitcoin works.
I understand that a full node can store the entire Blockchain on their machine. If they choose not to prune, there should be a huge file ...
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Different ways in which bitcoin can be burnt
I'm interested in the different ways in which bitcoin can be burnt. I can see three ways:
Send coins to a 'made-up' address. There's no way to distinguish it from a real address (so the transaction ...
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The effect of block arrival time and average block interval on blockchain forking and resolution
Solana docs say:
In Proof of Work consensus, these block times need to be very large
(~10 minutes) to minimize the odds of multiple validators producing a
new valid block at the same time. There's no ...
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Would a MultiTree be a good middle point of DAG and Blockchain?
I know how the bitcoin blockchain works, and pretty familiar with DAG (directed acyclic graph). What I am curious about is if you mixed them, would there be any issues, or would it just make ...
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I have bitcoins somewhere [duplicate]
I bought bitcoin around 2010 S for this website because you had to have bitcoin to bid on things like a TV or an Xbox but I don’t remember the website and I know I still have bitcoin on it Can you ...
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When exactly do I need to know the list of transactions during the mining process?
Is it necessary for the miner to know the transactions from the beginning of mining process? Or he won't need these information until he succeed in the mining and find the nonce that its output starts ...
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Theoretically how large can a blockchain block be?
How large can a blockchain block be? This is not specific to the current bitcoin blockchain or any blockchain. Just assuming you are creating a blockchain, how large can the blocks be?
Also what are ...
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How transactions script work?
I am trying to learn Bitcoin in some technical details, but I don't really understand the process of locking and unlocking scripts. I know that for what they are using, but can someone explain me some ...
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How do nodes fetch unconfirmed transactions?
I'm taking up a project to build a software in python to mine cryptocurrency (preferably bitcoin).
I have an overview of the computation that needs to be done.
I would like to know how nodes fetch ...
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Verifying Block 124724
Just for my own educational purposes, I'm writing something that verifies the blocks on the blockchain. I had in my code this line:
assert coinbase_amount == block_reward + total_tip
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is there a way of removing invalid chaintips?
after mining on the testnet getchaintips got full of chaintips with "status": "invalid". Invalid chaintips can't be extended with new blocks because one invalid block makes the ...
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Is there a way to sync bitcoin core without verification?
As the question asks, is there a way that one could sync the bitcoin client without verifying all the blocks. During IBD, downloading the blockchain isn't the bottleneck, what takes time is verifying ...
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How does PoW ensure that all the transactions are recorded and that all the transactions are valid?
I just started to study blockchain and bitcoin yesterday and came up with some questions.
If miners can select transactions when creating a block, how is it ensured that all the transactions over ...
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Where get list of all bitcoin data store changes?
I want to create my own database with bitcoin transactions, blocks and etc. I understand that bitcoin changes some times, added segwit and other. For support this thing i need remastered storage, ...
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Is value of a wallet derived by iterating over every block in the chain, scanning each transaction?
If I open Metamask or Coinbase, for example, I see a balance. This balance is a flat number, similar to what we'd see in a bank to more intuitively check my networth or balance of a particular wallet.
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What does the bitcoin username & password refers to?
I want to integrate bitcoin to a website to receive payments. I am going to use easyBitcoin (https://github.com/aceat64/EasyBitcoin-PHP). But i don't know what will be the username & password. ...
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How to serialize the CBlock Class in C++ and print the hex to terminal?
I have tried to serialize as follows without success: bitcoin tag v22.0 from github.
In the file src/miner.cpp and the function
function std::unique_ptr<CBlockTemplate> BlockAssembler::...
