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Bitcoin RPC: How to find the transaction that spends a TXO?
I suspect there is no good way to do it.
However is there any sub-optimal way to find the transaction that spends a transaction output (knowing the txid and index) with Bitcoin RPC?
Assuming txindex=1 ...
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How to calculate the hashes in Lightning
I was wondering how I calculate the hashes regarding BOLT03 Specification:
The Revocation Pubkey is calculated like this:
revocationpubkey = revocation_basepoint * SHA256(revocation_basepoint || ...
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What are the malleability threat vectors when passing PSBTs to other actors?
If I am passing a PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction) between multiple people, and I pass on my signature for my UTXOs for given inputs, can someone take advantage of malleability and cheat me ...
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Building Signed Bitcoin Transaction in Java
I have been attempting to build my own raw transaction generator in Java which I can then broadcast on the testnet network. The problem is when I attempt to broadcast the transaction it says there is ...
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bitcoin:uri for sending payments to multiple addresses
Lets say I want a donate bitcoin button/QR code to send to multiple recipients in different ratios.
As in send 50% to wallet 1.
Send 25% to wallet 2.
Send 25% to wallet 3.
Is there any way to do ...
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How to explore transaction chain via Original Bitcoin API as blockexplorer does it
Is there any possibility to explore transaction chain via Original Bitcoin API (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list) as the blockexplorer does it.
If not, why?
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How to broadcast transactions in bitcoin regtest mode?
I build three nodes named A,B,C based on bitcoin-regtest image of docker. And these three nodes are in the same network which means they can communicate with each other.
In node A, I use
bitcoin-cli -...
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What is the advantage of using truncated HASH256 over CRC32?
Some of the checksums in Bitcoin are the first 4 bytes of the HASH256 of the data. HASH256 is just double SHA256, so SHA256(SHA256(data)). What is the advantage of that over using a dedicated checksum ...
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How to make sure the user receives lightning payment?
I am working on a side project to allow users to receive some payments from it. When a user clicks a button to withdraw to a lightning address, my webapp makes a request to the host of that lightning ...
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Calculation of different Pubkeys in Lightning according to BOLT03
Lightning uses different Pubkeys to gain more privacy and security, I am not sure how they are calculated. In BOLT03 it says:
The corresponding private keys can be similarly derived, if the basepoint ...
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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 does a game like Satoshi Dice avoid de-anonymizing users?
When considering games like satoshi dice or many other more typical online casino games, how do they handle awarding prizes? It seems like they pay back to the original input that sourced capital to ...
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How much on-chain activity is to and from exchanges?
Are there any data services which provide metrics that show how much of the transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain are to and from exchanges?
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manually signing bitcoin transaction
I'm trying to create a BTC transaction with one input and two outputs, one for change and one OP_RETURN to anchor data. And I'm doing all of that on my regtest backend. The raw unsigned transaction is
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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 ...