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Segwit includes the input amount in the SignatureHash. What possible attack can this prevent?
Consider a transaction that has 2 inputs and 1 output. Let's say that the inputs are both 1 BTC and the output is 1.5 BTC. This would mean that the transaction pays a 0.5 BTC fee, which is ridiculous.
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What is maxsigcachesize?
Bitcoin Core caches the outcome of script and signature validations, so that when they are reoccur, they don't need to be repeated.
A common case for this reoccurrence is the fact that typical ...
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How to calculate the public key, compute point P and create signature using ECDSA?
The double and add method uses each number's binary representation to perform the computation. Taking a big-endian representation of a number, from left to right, if the n-th bit is 1, then you double ...
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Cryptographic digital signatures
the signature is nothing more than the combination of the public key and the private key
Here's an example of a digital signature process
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The signature process in Bitcoin is different but it ...
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