Questions tagged [liquid]
This tag should be used for questions referring to the Liquid inter-exchange settlement network developed by Blockstream.
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What total_amount in liquid gettxoutsetinfo command means?
$ elements-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash
{
"height": 2655501,
"bestblock": "5d52cd99233d96c5d99c1b80e2e04fcd068b83d0957095c6728bec98ca16c853",
"txouts": ...
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Mixed inputs / outputs in liquid transaction
Can one given liquid transaction be made of a mix of blinded and unblinded inputs and/or outputs?
If for example I have 1 input blinded + 1 input unblinded and then 1 output unblinded, one would be ...
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Elements (/Liquid) Tapscript opcodes
Related question: What opcodes are supported on Liquid but not yet on Bitcoin?
I had seen few opcodes in the slides shared by notgrubles on Twitter. They are:
OP_INSPECTCURRENTINPUT
OP_INSPECTINPUT
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What opcodes are supported on Liquid but not yet on Bitcoin?
What opcodes are supported in Liquid as of today (September 2021) but not (yet) on Bitcoin? What is the rationale for including these particular opcodes but not others?
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Bitcoin transactions associated with layer 2 projects
Is there any website which tracks the number of Bitcoin transactions, fees and amounts associated with layer 2 projects (Lightning Network, Liquid, Rootstock)?
I am curious about this because if a ...
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Does Liquid block explorer omits range proofs?
I am looking at a random Liquid TX like this one. It is a CT with the total size of 9205 bytes. Am I correct to assume that the bulk of the total size are range proofs, but they are not shown in the ...
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Transaction Fee in Confidential Transactions
Is there any transaction fee for Confidential Transactions in the Liquid Network?
In the UTXO model, Alice has 10 btc. She sends 1 btc to Bob, 8.999 btc as return change, and 0.001 as fee.
Input : 10 ...
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Can someone explains me about Liquid Network
I'm trying to integrate liquid network with my node.js application. Such that i want to create liquid wallet address, send a transaction from 1:1 on liquid network and check balance for that wallet ...
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Are Confidential Transactions on Liquid Opt-in?
Are confidential transactions on the Liquid network opt-in or mandatory? I know peg transactions reveal the amount and asset ID, but wondering if I can construct vanilla p2pkh outputs with no ...
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Do Liquid support large integers?
I’m wondering if Liquid network supports arithmetic operations with integers larger than 32-bits.
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How is Liquid monetized?
I was reading about how Liquid works. Do Liquid transaction fees work the same way BTC fees do (per transaction)? Is there only Blockstream as a miner or are there other enterprises who collect the ...
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What is the point of "Bitcoin Lightning" and "Bitcoin Liquid"?
Even having been "into" Bitcoin since almost since the start, I constantly find new weird things mentioned which are just apparently taken for granted and exist suddenly and somehow have ...
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What is the difference between the two transaction headers on the Bitcoin Liquid sidechain network?
You can see transactions for this asset
https://blockstream.info/liquid/address/H4UWQS836njW4QJ6WfkGAPjaYtK2twLnZE
For the second transaction, it has a header of
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Bitcoin's Liquid Network - Unable to Broadcast PSET P2PKH issuance transaction using go-elements
While working on go-elements I've been trying to expand on pset_test.go by implementing functions that broadcast different kinds of PSET transaction. Unfortunately I can't find many technical ...
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What is the maximum amount of an Elements asset that can be issued?
Elements allow for assets issuance, and I was wondering what was the limit to the number of units that we can issue for each asset.
There's a limit to the amount that can be issued each time, which is ...
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How does `createrawtransaction` and `fundrawtransaction` work with Elements?
I know how to create and fund bitcoin transactions using createrawtransaction and fundrawtransaction methods. I tried to use the same methods in Elements to create a transaction on regtest and I'm a ...
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Is a privacy preserving coin mixer possible on Liquid?
My thoughts:
Liquid uses confidential asset and tx. Therefore the asset type and amount is hiding from chain analysis. However the utxo's still carry history. This history could potentially lead chain ...
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Is the contest period really necessary for cross-chain transactions in 2-way-peg sidechains?
According to the first sidechain article (Link), the cross chain transaction process can be briefly describe as follows:
Alice has a wallet on sidechain S1. She wants to send some coins to sidechain ...
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Are Bulletproofs fully implemented into liquid?
Blockstream themselves released a paper in 2018 about a more efficient range proof and Calles IT Bulletproofs. I'm wondering if it is already fully integrated into the liquid sidechain?
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How is this 1 input 2 output tx larger than this 2 input 2 output tx?
I saw the following liquid transaction with one input and two outputs is byte-wise bigger than another liquid transaction with two inputs and two outputs. How is this possible?
One input transaction (...
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How does Elements integrate Simplicity?
Greg Maxwell noted that there are two ways to integrate Simplicity into Bitcoin. One is to make only a few select high-level constructs available (like SHA256, CheckSigHashAll), the other is to expose ...
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How to emulate SIGHASH_NOINPUT using CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY?
I read on bitcoin-dev that CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY (CHECKDATASIG in BCash) can be used to emulate new sighash flags. How would that work, concretely? As an example, please provide an example update ...
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Where can one convert their bitcoins to Liquid LBTC bitcoins on Blockstreams Liquid Network?
Is there a place where one can convert their Bitcoin to Liquid BTC? Which exchanges? Is there even a mobile wallet that supports it if one wants to withdraw it?
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Claiming liquid peg-in: „The txoutproof must contain bitcoinTx and only bitcoinTX“
I‘m trying to do a liquid pegin. Generated the pegin address and sent funds to it, waited < 102 blocks. When trying to claim them with
liquid-cli claimpegin “rawtransaction“ “txoutproof“
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How does Blockstream's Liquid Bitcoin network work to make fast bitcoin transactions?
Blockstream's Liquid network can facilitate instant bitcoin transactions on their network. How does it work exactly?
My main questions are:
As a user with BTC on some exchange that supports Liquid ...
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How to burn confidential assets or pegged bitcoin on Bitcoin Liquid sidechain
I used to burn bitcoin sending to a bogus address like 1111111111111111111114oLvT2
There is any equivalent confidential address for Elements/Liquid?
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Could you open a lightning channel in a confidential transaction?
On an elements sidechain (e.g. liquid) could you open a lightning channel with a confidential transaction.
You could probably open a payment channel but could the channel 'speak' to other channels?
Or ...
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Why is liquid so inactive and (according to statistics) not being used yet?
After years of development 3 Months ago Liquid (the side chain project) was announced. If you look at https://liquid.horse/ you can find the following statistics as of right now:
Sidechain Stats ...
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Transaction deserialization test vectors for Elements sidechain?
I'm working on adding support for Elements sidechain to https://github.com/Simplexum/python-bitcointx/ library.
Transaction serialization/deserialization seems to be working, but to test it properly,...
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Is there a way to verify how many Liquid Bitcoins are in existence?
Is there a way to recognize peginaddresses where bitcoins are locked up for use on the Liquid sidechain, and therefore a way to sum up the total bitcoins currently circulating on Liquid?
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How long do transactions on the Liquid Network take to clear?
Transactions on the Liquid sidechain are said to enable much faster transfers than the main Bitcoin blockchain. How fast are the the transfers? Does it still use a blockchain?
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Will the Liquid sidechain be open to any user?
With the recent start of the private beta of Liquid, the first sidechain is now in production on the Bitcoin network.
One of the features advertised is:
User Control – Users can hold their ...
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