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Average/Median Bitcoin Holdings for US [closed]

They said 17% of US Residents own bitcoin, or 46 million americans. Just curious if anyone knows the median/average amount for these people. $100? $500? $10,000? I am trying to find statistics on this....
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Pros & Cons of Self Hosting Bitcoin Node vs using a 3rd Party Service?

We are a medium size company building a blockchain application that requires us to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain (+ several other cryptocurrencies). One option is for us to use a 3rd party ...
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"Hot", "Cold" & "Warm" Storage Wallets? [duplicate]

I've seen a number of sites advertise they support "hot", "warm" and "cold" wallet storage solutions (the only thing I haven't seen so far are "frozen" wallets)....
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Can an exchange or marketplace benefit from private key encryption?

A powerful security technique to prevent theft of Bitcoins from a user's online wallet is to encrypt the user's private key with his password without ever stroring the PK directly in the database. ...
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How to use Multisig feature on Bitcoin Core RPC in an online exchange?

I've craeted a small online exchange based on Bitcoin Core. The features in this application are: User send request to get a new address, and the Bitcoin Core generate a new one with defined ...
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Keeping wallet addresses outside bitcoin core

I'm trying to build a good security for my online bitcoin based application. Is something like this possible? send_bitcoin(address) create_address() sweep_balances() + | | ...
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Bitcoin MultiSig balance not showing under listaccounts

I added 2-2 MultiSig address into wallet via bitcoin cli (Testnet) addmultisigaddress <'["key","key"]'> [account] 1 key of current wallet and other public key from different node wallet. ...
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Could bitcoin/blockchain be used to create a secure non-3rd party escrow?

I'm wondering if there could be a block chain approach to selling goods and putting money in an escrow-like state until the goods are received. I'm envisioning the following scenario. 1) Buyer puts ...
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Technical architecture? How to build it? (Developer Point of View) [closed]

I'm a softawre developer & newly involved in Blockchain Technology. I need information about How Cryptocurrency Exchange Technically work? i.e Buy ETH using BTC or exchanging any coin with ...
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Is there a way to access transactions that happen inside exchanges?

For example coinbase is an exchange and so, their transactions are done off of the blockchain. They do however expose an API, which I believe should expose their own coinbase "blockchain" ...
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Can I create a Blockchain copy (up and running) in order to make my own bitcoins transfers without Fee?

I need to make a lot of transfers per day (bitcoins), but the fee is higher than expected. I'm thinking in create a Blockchain copy running on our servers and make the transfers from my wallet and to ...
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Any way that running a node could help speed up confirmations at exchanges

When making transfers between exchanges and wallets that are time sensitive it would be great to be able to some how reduce times to have transfers confirmed. Is there any way that running a node (or ...
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How can I generate addresses for all altcoins?

I want to develop my own exchange website having all the altcoins addresses. I am doing research from past few days and I came to know that I need a copy software client of all the altcoins, and then ...
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