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Bitcoin Core is a full node implementation of the Bitcoin protocol with a wallet and GUI. Bitcoin Core is a MIT-licensed Qt 5 GUI application for the original Bitcoin codebase. Additional/previous nam…
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Transactions are signed messages carrying out the transfer or generation of bitcoins. They are broadcast throughout the Bitcoin network and, if accepted, integrated in the blockchain.
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The journal of all confirmed Bitcoin transactions. The blockchain consists of a linked sequence of blocks and each block contains a list of transactions.—Please eponymous [blockchain.info] for the epo…
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A wallet manages a user's private keys. Wallet software is used to send and receive Bitcoin. It also keeps track of the user's transactions, addresses, and balance.
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bitcoind is the command-line software for Bitcoin Core. It stands for "Bitcoin Daemon" where a daemon is any computer process which runs in the background ("service" in Windows terminology).
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Tells a user how to pay a recipient. Bitcoin addresses are strings consisting of numbers and letters that begin with '1', '3', or 'bc1'. Addresses encode the recipient's output script that includes ei…
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Proposed payment system leveraging payment channels which allow re-negotiation of balances that finally get executed on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Transaction fees are paid to miners by the sender of a transaction.
This money rewards miners for the work they do in putting transactions into a specific order and adding them to new blocks to be…
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Security issues with the design or implementation of Bitcoin.
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Private keys are used for signing transactions and allow the holder of the private key to spend the Bitcoin associated with the address derived from the private key.
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A remote-procedure-call (RPC) interface provided by the Bitcoin Core wallet and it's companion software bitcoind. This RPC interface uses the Javascript Object Notation (JSON) serialization format for…
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A mining pool is a way of sharing the work needed to find a block. Miners are rewarded in proportion to the amount of computing power they contribute to the problem, with various ways of calculating r…
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mining theory concerns the function, the reason for, and the underlying concepts of Bitcoin mining.
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Exchanges are sites which allow for the conversion of Bitcoins to various world currencies as well as alternate cryptocurrencies.
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Blockchain Ltd. is a company that offers a web wallet and provides a blockchain explorer under the domain blockchain.com.
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A client is any application which allows a user to connect to the Bitcoin (or alternate) network. Alternately, "client" may refer to a non-standard user interface which interacts with the Bitcoin netw…
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An API is an Application Programming Interface and services often have APIs available for developers to write software which accesses information offered by the service.
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Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client written in Python
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The components of the blockchain and a data structure that collects transactions.
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A simple, stack-based, Forth-like programming language using "opcodes" to express spending conditions.
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Source code and development of Bitcoin Core, the reference implementation of Bitcoin.
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Segregated Witness (segwit) defines a transaction format introduced in 2017 which doesn't include signatures in the transaction identifier (txid).
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Transactions that have not yet been included in a block.
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Multi-signature addresses require m-of-n signatures to authorize spending funds sent to them.
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BIP32, or Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets. HD wallets are wallets that can be shared amongst different wallet implementation with or without the ability to spend coins.
https://github.com/bitcoi…
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A public key is the public half of the public/private keypair. Anyone can use a public key check that a signature is correct, but they can't generate the signature themselves with the public key.
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A hash is the output of a hash function, a function which is a mathematically reproducible but irreversible process that takes in an arbitrary length input and produces a fixed length output. The same…
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should be used for questions related to the Bitcoin network and communication between different nodes on the Internet.
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The process of recovering lost bitcoins or private keys from a wallet/backup
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OFF-Topic: Questions about Litecoin are generally off-topic unless they are applicable to Bitcoin.
Litecoin is a cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin. Litecoin is very similar to Bitcoin with a few dist…
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The creation and ongoing work for different existing and future Bitcoin-related projects and source code.
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A digital signature proves that the owner of a private key produced or endorsed a given message. These are used in transactions to prove that an output can be spent in a transaction.
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Alternative cryptocurrencies are OFF-TOPIC unless the question is applicable to Bitcoin.
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This is the process of bringing a Bitcoin client up to date with the list of all Bitcoin transactions known as the blockchain.
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Nodes that fully verify all of the rules of Bitcoin. The most popular software implementation of full nodes is called Bitcoin Core.
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