Unanswered Questions
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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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What are the privacy implications of sharing or publishing the .onion address of a bitcoin node?
Some tutorials redact the .onion address of their nodes for privacy reasons: https://coldcard.com/docs/img/econoalch/Sparrow47.png
What are the attack vectors that they are defending themselves from? ...
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UTXO snapshots and history pruning
Is there a research, BIP proposal or simple discussion about possible improvement on the size required to run a full node and a way to shrink/prune the history of bitcoin and have fast sync?
Let me ...
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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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How do I connect my S19s with my full node for solo mining?
I am running a full node server and attempting to attach a dozen S19 miners. The Bitcoin Core machine seems to be up and running, fully synced and I can ping it. I also can see it is listening on the ...
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How does Electrum's "send change to lightning" work?
In Electrum, when sending to a non-Lightning ₿ address, I can choose the "send change to lightning" option. How does this work?
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Does a Raspberry Pi have enough CPU power to run a full node and an electrs server?
Very curious if anyone has this particular setup, currently am running the aforementioned on an old Acer laptop but it's struggling hard.
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How to get transaction fee info using Python from an Electrum server?
I can get a raw transaction and parse it using electrum and bitcoinlib fairly easily:
import bitcoinlib
from electrum.daemon import Daemon
from electrum.simple_config import SimpleConfig
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listaddressgroupings or dumpwallet? I need to dump private keys from Bitcoin-QT
I have a Bitcoin-QT wallet and the client is more than a year out of sycn. It would take years and massive amount of data to get it synced so, this is out of the question.
My plan was to move my coins ...
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Rolling forward [hash-of-the-block]
can somebody explain me what's the meaning of a Rolling forward after a reindex of the chain in the log of bitcoind?
Thanks in advance
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How to generate addresses for all output types when importing a wallet to Bitcoin Core?
I have a friend that has an issue with Bitcoin Core: He generated a wallet with Coldcard, imported it into Bitcoin Core, received on both bech32 addresses and nested ones. He lost access to that PC ...
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