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Elected moderator of Bitcoin.SE. I am a PhD candidate in cryptography (mathematics) at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and an ex-maintainer of Bitcoin Core. I have a background in computer science, software development, abstract mathematics, competitive programming, and cyber security.

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The Bitcoin.it wiki says addresses do not carry balances...but all info suggests otherwise
Mar 28, 2018
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Derivation of parent private key from non-hardened child
Jul 21, 2017
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Why is it harder to compute nonce for a hash with a certain number zero prefixes than it is for any other hash?
Aug 6, 2017
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Does BIP39 mnemonic construction avoid repeating words?
Sep 24, 2017
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What is a millisatoshi? I thought satoshi is the smallest unit?
Jan 28, 2018
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Replacing ECDSA (SECP256k1) with Schnorr signatures
Nov 29, 2017
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What does "Unable to decode output address" mean?
Dec 8, 2017
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Why bech32 address always starts with bc1q?
Feb 26, 2018
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What does 'signal' and 'lock-in' mean in a BIP?
Jul 21, 2017
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Is a bitcoin address collision possible if generating 90 million addresses every 4 hours?
Jan 19, 2019
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Is it safe to mention bitcoin/other coin related information on this forum?
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How to handle answers with security issues?
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Stepping down as moderator
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Why is the bitcoin tag not allowed?
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How should now off-topic questions that were recently edited be treated?
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Is it possible to compute the y-coordinate of a point on SECP256K1, given only the x-coordinate
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Why is this function bijective?

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