Unanswered Questions
2,991 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Peergroup download of the blockchain stalls?
I'm using bitcoinsharp to build my client. I try to download the blockchain in a peergroup network. Download starts, but when progress is 98%, the download is stopped & the client is waiting (2 ...
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2answers
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How to get notification on bitcoin receive with bitcoin core
How can I get Bitcoin receive notifications with Bitcoin Core. I have tried the walletnotify and blocknotify options. walletnotify is fired two times when I send or receive bitcoins. And with ...
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Can*t call chainActive.Tip()->nHeight in core.cpp
I want to call chainActive.Tip()->nHeight in core.cpp. It is not possible, I am interested in every idea.
https://github.com/LIMXTEC/BitSend/blob/DEV-joshafest/src/core.cpp
Here is an example :
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7
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2answers
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How does a mix between Proof of Work/Stake work? (Peercoin)
I think I understand Proof of Stake and Proof of Work from a conceptual point now. For themselves both are good ideas for sure, but how would a crypto currency like Peercoin (PPC) combine both of them?...
6
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1answer
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Mixing Unequal Inputs
Let's say have 3 inputs (alice, bob, satoshi): 0.3, 1.3, 1.6.
We can mix these inputs for example like this: 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.1, 0.1.
Or like this: 1.3, 1.3, 0.3, 0....
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2answers
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bitcoind and onion listening
I would like to get Bitcoind to advertise that it is listening on an onion address. However, I do not want to have Bitcoind use a tor socks proxy to connect. I have a special router for tor ...
6
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2answers
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How do I spend bitcoins from multiple wallets in a single transaction?
Using, e.g., the Bitcoin Core command line, how could I spend bitcoins from multiple wallets in a single transaction?
This comment says:
instead of sending the transaction to the network, you send ...
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3answers
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How does Ripple's exchange work?
In Advanced/Trade tab there is a "BTC/XRP" box, and a "change issuer" link.
I have no clue what should I do to post any buy or sell:
I can freely modify the exchange currencies, and only USD/XRP ...
5
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0answers
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Did the introduction of VerifyScript cause a backwards incompatible change to consensus?
My question is about the changes to bitcoin done by commit range [a75560d8, 6ff5f718], and their effect on consensus.
Out of this range of four commits (all attributed to satoshi) during the dates ...
5
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1answer
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How do I remove Wallet from Bcoin?
I'm playing with bcoin cli and created lots of wallets. Is there any way to remove wallet via WalletDB Api?
5
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1answer
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Creating Mining Competition on regtest
As we know , Bitcoin core-Regtest is used to set up our own blockchain starting from Genesis Block. I have created Two nodes on my localhost running on different ports (I am using Windows 8.1). They ...
5
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1answer
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How to build Merkle root from merkle branches?
Is there any help/tutorial on how to build the Merkle root from stratum data?
The Slushpool's stratum protocol has an example of a mining job but it does not contain any Merkle branches and I don't ...
5
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1answer
551 views
Wallets that support payment channels?
I know that maybe it's a bit early to start asking Wallets to implement Lightning Network connections even if the majority don't support SegregatedWitness yet.
But how about Payment Channels? In ...
5
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2answers
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Is it possible to discover the set of bitcoin addresses from a public key?
I'm trying to find the set of bitcoin addresses from a public key associated with a user just to analyse this user transaction. Is there any way to derive/find all the addresses that have been ...
5
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1answer
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Cannot create a transaction
I am trying to create a transaction on the bitcoin testnet, using bitcore:
Error Message :
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Here is my code:
var ...
