Unanswered Questions
224 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Can stolen or otherwise tainted coins be laundered through mining fees?
Do chain analysis techniques consider the fee portion of block rewards as tainted funds?
e.g. if known stolen funds are moved in a certain block, the fees the sender pays end up "polluting" ...
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Simulating -walletnotify option in Electrum
When run in daemon mode, bitcoind accepts a parameter -walletnotify=<cmd> which runs <cmd> whenever a wallet transaction changes due to sending/receiving.
Is there a similar feature in ...
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Utility of longterm fee estimation
I've been reviewing the effectiveness of long-term fee estimation in Bitcoin Core and recently conducted an analysis, which indicates that it might not work as expected.
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How to calculate the purging low-fee for a node with the default mempool size?
I'm running a full node with a mempool size set to 2 GB. Default mempool size is 300 MB.
At the moment (block hight 785,095) the mempool size is around 344 MB.
Running rpc command
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How much mining activity is needed for Bitcoin to remain secure?
I'm not looking for a number, but rather for a way to make an estimate taking things like market capitalization and the fact that mining uses ASICs into account. (I assume ASICs are relevant since ...
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In Electrum, how does one watch/poll a wallet for an incoming payments to a certain address via API?
I want to create a simple way to accepting bitcoins on my own, using Electrum. I don't except big volume. I suppose, I'd have at most a handful of incoming payments in the beginning.
That is, I ...
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How do I calculate transaction fee for call to createpsbt()?
When my user invokes my app, he passes as an input parameter the desired value of the TX fee in satoshis per byte. I create a PSBT by calling createpsbt(). I exert complete control over the ...
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How can I accelerate confirmations in ledger nano s?
I am using Ledger Nano S hardware wallet to store my bitcoins. Last week, for an experiment, I decided to send bitcoins to hitbtc currency exchange with zero btc fees. I was wondering how many hours ...
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Electrum Seed Purpose for MultiSig Wallet
I'm curious as to what exactly is protected by the seed that Electrum generates for a multisig wallet. My knowledge of the protocol implementation is rather basic, so please correct me where I'm wrong ...
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Electrum transaction still says unconfirmed parent
A transaction from Electrum is still showing unconfirmed parent even though the previous transaction in the chain has completed. Electrum has shown this for 24 hours now. I realize that my fee is ...
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Electrum via command-line: can generic blockchain info be requested?
For example can I ask the Electrum client via it's API what the height or version of the latest block is? Looking through the docs all I currently see is wallet commands.
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Electrum - Why do I have to Restore every time I use it?
I did not forget my password. I have been done dozens of transactions with Electrum, and every time I try to send bitcoins, I get "Invalid Password". So I restore from seed, set a new password, use it ...
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Is it possible to import transaction history from an old electrum wallet to a new electrum wallet?
I see there is an option to export history but no option to import history. It would be nice to keep all my history in one wallet. Thx.
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Can the fee produced by estimatefee be artificially manipulated?
Could a miner who wanted more transaction fees manipulate the fee produced by estimatefee? If so, what percentage of hashpower would it take, and how long would you need it?
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Is anyone running public electrum server with websockets?
It seems websockets should be supported by major implementations (checked fulcrum and electrum). https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php?chain=btc has not a single websocket enabled electrum server ...
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