Unanswered Questions
709 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Which wallets are spending P2TR with SIGHASH_ALL?
I noticed there are quite a lot of transactions spending taproot key path inputs that use SIGHASH_ALL instead of SIGHASH_DEFAULT in signatures (around 20% in the last two weeks). Recall that ...
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How to approach building a custom UTXO index on top of a full-node
I want to avoid physically importing addresses into a wallet. I want to write a UTXO indexing system on a per-address basis.
I often wonder how a wallet can keep track of all of its addresses' UTXOs, ...
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bitcond and bitcoin-Qt system configuration and bandwidth requirements
What is the best operating system configuration for a computer to run (bitcoind or bitcoin-Qt) and (BFGminer or CGMiner) under Linux, assuming that it will be connected to a 3 Terrahash mining rig on ...
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Is it safe to skip the initial block verification at startup?
The longest step in bitcoin core initialization is "Verifying last 6 blocks at level 3". The number of blocks checked at startup went down from 288 in 2014 to 6 now. Therefore, in order to speedup ...
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libwallycore error installing LND on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm setting up an LND node on Ubuntu 18.04. I've installed python3, and cloned the repo. I ran configure, and get this error on the make command:
checking byteswap.h, usability... no
checking ...
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Bitcoinj: How to fix error "You should use Context.propagate() or a ContextPropagatingThreadFactory"
I'm using bitcoinj from a Scala application... and when I start it, I always get the following errors:
[error] o.b.c.Context - Performing thread fixup: you are accessing bitcoinj via a thread that ...
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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 ...
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bitcoind still running after 'bitcoin-cli stop'
I'm running Debian 11, all updates installed. 12gb RAM, massive internal SSD for storage.
$ /usr/local/bin/bitcoin-25.0/bin/bitcoin-cli stop has worked well shutting down bitcoind on my computer until ...
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bitcoind performance issues
I am struggling with poor performance of Bitcoin Core full node, which is used as a hot wallet.
There are similar questions already but without an answer or solution
Bitcoind Performance for ...
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bitcoin TransactionBuilder is not a constructor
I'm trying to send bitcoin with the bitcoinjs-lib library and I get the following error:
TypeError: bitcoin.TransactionBuilder is not a constructor
at sendmoney (/Users/....../bitcoin.js:53:18)
at ...
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Schnorr signature key storage
So everyone talks about Schnorr signatures and Taproot when talking about Bitcoin. I would like to know if there is any standard that they will use to store the keys used in this algorithm. And also I ...
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Raspiblitz slow sync performance
I'm syncing my raspberry pi 4 model B, 4GB and after 4 days I'm less than 50% synced. It seems as though there is something wrong with bitcoind as there are some weird symptoms going on. The pi is ...
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Is it possible to use Bitcoin-core for multisig? Can it handle change addresses?
I have tried to import three xpub in a watch-only wallet as keypool with importmulti and a multisig output descriptor and to fill the first address with some BTCs. When I try to spend the newly ...
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How to segregate wallet from bitcoin core | Run multiple wallets in different servers on one centralized bitcoin node
I am running bitcoin full node in a centralized server. I have many web applications running in various places. I want to connect this web applications with centralized full bitcoin node. How to ...
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How to directly query leveldb database to get get a record by transaction hash or by sender's address?
I learned that the blocks and transactions are stored locally in .bitcoin/blocks/index and .bitcoin/chainstate databases, respectively.
I want to make a direct query to those databases to measure the ...