Unanswered Questions
165 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How does bitcoin core handle service flag spoofing?
There are 5 service flags in src/protocol.cpp:
static std::string serviceFlagToStr(size_t bit)
{
const uint64_t service_flag = 1ULL << bit;
switch ((ServiceFlags)service_flag) {
case ...
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Creating a P2SH-P2WPKH using Bitcoin Functional Test Framework
I'm using the Bitcoin Functional Test framework to understand how SegWit works by analyzing and building a P2SH-P2WPKH transaction.
When I run my code the transaction gets created, but when I inspect ...
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Various caches are defined in the Bitcoin source code. What do these caches refer to?
The source code is as follows：
//! -dbcache default (MiB)
static const int64_t nDefaultDbCache = 450;
//! -dbbatchsize default (bytes)
static const int64_t nDefaultDbBatchSize = 16 << 20;
//...
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Generate addresses from Trezor's xPub using Python
I am trying to generate BIP32 HD addresses from my Trezors xPub key.
I keep getting errors with most of the libs our there. What am I missing?
pywallet:
from pywallet import wallet
xpub = '...
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Partial private key recovery
I had the pleasure of setting up a Bitcoin wallet using the Blue Wallet app and diligently noted down the 52 characters of my private key on a piece of paper for backup purposes.
Upon revisiting the ...
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How can inputs be retrieved efficiently when parsing the bitcoin blockchain?
I downloaded the Bitcoin blockchain. I have a full node and I would like to do some parsing. I use RPC to send commands to Bitcoin Core from my Python program. When I get a block it works fine but the ...
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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 sign bitcoin raw transactions with Python offline
I have a raw bitcoin transaction created using createrawtransaction
unsigned_tx = "...
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How do bitcoin nodes know their own external IP address?
I'm studying the bitcoin source code and I have a doubt about if: Bitcoin nodes still follow the methods explained at the "Satoshi Client Node Discovery" wiki page?
More specifically, if they follow ...
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Whisper Implementation in Bitcoin
Is there some kind of implementation in bitcoin to communicate between nodes, which is similar to the Whisper Communication in Ethereum ?
Whisper, is a communication protocol for DApps to communicate ...
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What is the age of the oldest known Bitcoin core developer?
I am trying to compile some demographic data on who has contributed to Bitcoin so far and track how the demographics are changing over time.
Since GitHut does not show me demographic data I have ...
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Can there be more than one result of decoding a raw transaction?
I was looking in rpcrawtransaction.cpp and came across the signrawtransaction rpc method. While reading through this method, I thought these lines seemed strange:
vector<CTransaction> ...
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How the Bitcoin community will handle attacks on a Client's code?
I have some thoughts about the following scenario.
The brightest future.
The Bitcoin becomes a very popular and liquid currency all over the world. Some serious financial or political parties may ...
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Clarity on rpc flag design to pass boolean arguments
I am working with RPCs flags that may have a boolean argument which is extracted using GetBoolArg and there are various ways to pass Boolean arguments. For example
-fastprune=1 // true
-fastprune=...
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Reverse-engineering Bitcoin to a formal specification
Is there any attempt/project to reverse-engineer Bitcoin's reference implementation, not to an informal description (I have found those), rather to a formal specification?
I have tried searching but ...
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