Questions tagged [witness-data]
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(P2WSH-nestedin-P2SH) Problem in solving question 1+5=6
this is my first question at this platform.
this matter has scratched my head badly, please pay patient to read my question.
i am trying to move traditional p2sh tx into p2wsh-nestedin-p2sh tx and ...
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How does storing the witness outside of the block prevent malleability?
I have some question on how segregated witness work.
I'm reading this post and in the answer exist this phrase
Since signature data (witness data) is stored outside the transaction (and outside ...
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Concept of Block weight and segwit are still unclear
It seems like duplicated question, but i read many articles and posts to undestand about segwit.
Below links are something i read
What is block weight and how is it different from block size?
After ...
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How to generate an output address from output scrips which start with 0x00?
A few days ago, I got a BITCOIN traffic which contains some tx message.
some of tx messages contain witness data.
I want to produce all output addresses from transaction output scripts.
I extracted ...
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Would signature aggregation reduce the largest feasible blocksize
If a Schnorr signature aggregation scheme were to be integrated into Bitcoin. Would the reduction in witness data versus non witness data (need less bytes for a signature therefore witness data usage ...
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How do virtual size, stripped size and raw size compare between legacy address formats and native segwit?
This answer states that SegWit doesn't reduce transaction size. If this is true, why is it cheaper to send a SegWit transaction?
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Why is the wtxid considered malleable?
Why is the wtxid considered malleable since the transaction is unconfirmed?
How can a third-party modify it?
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Does my segwit node only have segwit blocks?
My segwit node makes a gettxout RPC query and checks the scriptPubKey.type is "witness_v0_keyhash" and does things accordingly.
To my understanding old nodes have different blocks and if I happened ...
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What is the Witness and what data does it contain?
I've learned about the Segregated Witness but couldn't find info on breaking it down.
I know usually when legacy addresses are used the public keys for example will be under Scriptig. With P2SH, I ...
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How does a SegWit node verify a block?
I know that non-SegWit node could verify a block without witness.
For SegWit node, is witness necessary to verify a block? Because I know witness are committed as wtxid merkle node in coinbase. What'...
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What happens to witness blocks?
What happens to witness blocks after they are broadcast to other witness nodes? Are they kept or forgotten after some blocks?
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How much will Segwit *actually* increase bitcoin capacity for realistic transactions?
I often see claims that Segwit increases transactions per block by 1.7x to 2x. I'm not sure if this is true, but if I do the math myself, I don't get this number.
My understanding is:
1) The “weight”...
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How much will Segwit increase the number of transactions that can fit in each block?
How much weight would the witness data have on the total block size? What is the culminating effect of this on the number of transactions that can fit into each block?
Thanks in advance :)
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Parsing a SegWit transaction, what are stack items in witness data
For every input we can have multiple stack items, what do these represent?
As a reference this question is helpful
Are these defined here?
For eg. P2WPKH would have a signature followed by a pubkey, (...
