Unanswered Questions
125 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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Key Derivation - CKDprv & CKDpub
I would like to replicate this derivation of keys.
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ext pub: xpub661MyMwAqRbcFtXgS5sYJABqqG9YLmC4Q1Rdap9gSE8NqtwybGhePY2gZ29ESFjqJoCu1Rupje8YtGqsefD265TMg7usUDFdp6W1EGMcet8
ext prv: ...
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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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UniSat's `getPublicKey` returns internal key or output key when using Taproot?
According to UniSat documentation here, I can call window.unisat.getPublicKey to get the public key of the current account.
My address type is Taproot. After calling this function, I get a compressed ...
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Using BIP32 derivations, can all seeds theoretically produce all public keys?
I was interested in how many possible combinations of BIP 32 derivation paths exist, which could result in a public key derived from a seed. While some people colloquially call it "unlimited,&...
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Bitcoin Core stores public keys and balance unencrypted, a few questions
I came across this statement in the Sparrow Wallet documentation;
Unfortunately, Bitcoin Core stores your public keys and balance unencrypted on the computer it is running on. If this computer is ...
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Bitcoin Core RPC server not working
I have downloaded and installed and got up and running a bitcoin core node, and it is running fine as far as people are connecting to it on port 8333 just fine. However I can't seem to connect to it ...
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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
class ...
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What tools can I use to create and replace RBF transactions?
I'd like to create transactions within my python application, that support replace-by-fee RBF (BIP125).
Apparently, if I want to be able to replace my transaction later on, I need to signal that ...
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SPV client TCP connection in python
I am trying to implement an SPV client in python (for my own learning). I want to start by making a simple TCP connection to a full node, but I either cannot get a response to my version message, or ...
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How to generate unspendable testnet bitcoin address with python?
I'm trying to generate a testnet address. However, I tried to write this python program (using help of various online code places), and I created this program. The program is designed to take a 20 ...
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Random generation of elliptic curve points: is there a preferred approach?
While most practical applications are concerned with the random generation of private keys, anyone who wishes to write unit-testing code on the secp256k1 elliptic curve group may wish to have the ...
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