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Why does each Bitcoin wallet application generate the same new receive address?
Many wallets are HD wallets. This means that keys are created using a process that is both hierarchical and deterministic. Hence H.D. Therefore address generation is deterministic. Meaning that the ...
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Connecting A Wallet To A Pruned Node
You can't ask for UTXOs from arbitrary nodes on the networks, because there is no way to verify that information.
You need to ask for blocks. And a pruned node cannot provide those.
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Is Whirlpool safe to use?
Whirlpool (and Chaumian Coinjoin in particular) creates a new transaction where your coins are mixed with other users coins while allowing you to ensure you receive the same amount of coins out of the ...
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Bitcoin Core balance incorrect after connecting Sparrow wallet
I found the reason for the unexpected balance - it was because apparently when importing a Sparrow wallet, it does so with "avoid_reuse" being set to true. This is evident when running "...
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Does a set of private keys have a different XPUB and ZPUB for single signature and multisig?
Does a set of private keys derive a different XPUB and ZPUB depending on whether it is being used as a single signature wallet or whether it is joining a multisig wallet setup?
Yes, because the ...
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Sparrow Wallet only partially supports Taproot?
On the Wasabi side, it supports BIP39. You can verify it by simply generating a random BIP39 word list here https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and try to recover it in Wasabi.
I know you know but just in ...
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Sparrow Wallet only partially supports Taproot?
Correct, you cannot load a Taproot wallet when connecting to Bitcoin Core in Sparrow v1.7.1. Support is planned however. For now, you can load the wallet by connecting to any Electrum server, or wait ...
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How to connect Sparrow with Bitcoin Core on Mac?
Solved it!
Make sure you have "Enable RPC Server" enabled, or server "server": true in settings.json
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Zpub vs xpub not matching between seedsigner and sparrow?
It is simply a different format. Sparrow can toggle between zpub and xpub configuration (as a display) and you can thus verify the xpub in this way as well.
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Why does each Bitcoin wallet application generate the same new receive address?
New receive addresses in Bitcoin wallets like Sparrow, Ledger Live, BlueWallet, and Nunchuk are not randomly generated. They are derived deterministically from the wallet's seed using a specific ...
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Which version of Bitcoin Core do I need for a Dell laptop with Ubuntu?
3. bitcoin.org
bitcoin.org/en/download lists
Platform
Package
Windows
exe - zip
macOS (x86_64)
zip - tar.gz
macOS (arm64)
zip - tar.gz
Linux 64 bit
(tgz)
ARM Linux 64 bit - 32 bit
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RISC-V ...
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Watch only Bitcoin address in Sparrow
My guess would be that when you put the P2SH address into the xpub field, Sparrow doesn’t make the "Apply" button active, because a P2SH address is not an xpub. Perhaps you could try to go ...
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Sparrow with Keystone Pro and Bitcoin Core
Yes, I had to go back and index the wallet in bitcoin core. This involved updating my bitcoin.conf file to add server=1 and txindex=1 and also make sure I had wallet= specificed.
Then I had to ...
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Sparrow with Keystone Pro and Bitcoin Core
Any ideas?
Ideas yes, but based more on guesswork than on actual experience with Sparrow.
Bitcoin core normally does not maintain an index of all transactions for performance and storage reasons.
It ...
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Coldcard sparrow
The security of your coins relies on having being able to produce a random number within a large range of possible numbers. A large range is required so that it is infeasible for someone to search the ...
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Really strange issue when trying to connect Sparrow Wallet to Bitcoin Core
tl;dr: Make sure to add a wallet in Sparrow when first connecting to Bitcoin Core.
The cause of this issue is due to BWT requiring the optional keypoololdest field from the RPC call getwalletinfo, ...
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Create a multisig wallet using Sparrow wallet with keys (A and (B or C))
Such a policy would have to be described using a Miniscript Output Descriptor, which i believe the Sparrow wallet does not support yet (as of August 2023).
A simpler k-of-N multisig policy can however ...
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Issues Installing Electrum Personal Server with Sparrow and Bitcoin Core
switching to an Electrum wallet is a good choice. However, you should change the certificates in the Electrum personal server as they are outdated from March.
generate new certificates as follows:
cd ...
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