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How does the Lightning network work in simple terms?

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How does Bitcoin Cash implement replay protection?

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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with blockchain.info?

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How does the Kimoto Gravity Well regulate difficulty?

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What advantages and disadvantages does Ethereum have over Bitcoin?

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What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks?

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How thoroughly has Segregated Witness been tested?

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Jan 26 '17 at 15:33 Murch♦ 52.6k

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What are the trade-offs between transacting on Lightning Network and Bitcoin mainchain?

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Can a Bitcoin transaction have the same address for input and output?

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Is centralization in the Lightning network inevitable? Why (not)?

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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with Electrum?

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What is the minRelayTxFee?

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Litecoin has had SegWit for one month, what impact did that have?

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How do you make the unicode Bitcoin symbol show correctly in text on Linux?

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Are any miners still considering priority in their transaction selection?

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Is SegWit a blocksize increase or more efficient use of blockspace?

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How does Ethereum achieve consensus?

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What contributions have Blockstream developers made to the Bitcoin project?

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What are the benefits of Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables for Bitcoin?

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What is Open Transactions?

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How is a node in the middle prohibited from keeping the money in a routed Payment in Lightning network?

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I'm new to Bitcoin, how do I keep my bitcoins secure?

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Why would we ever need 10k new addresses in average per day?

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What happens to transactions in the mempool when their parent transaction expires?

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Why does Taproot require a new address format?

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What is the Lightning Network proposal? What problem is it trying to solve?

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Where can I find research on wallet fingerprinting?

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142 Questions

In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?

How does the Lightning network work in simple terms?

What are Channel Factories and how do they work?

How does Bitcoin Cash implement replay protection?

How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with blockchain.info?

How are paths found in Lightning Network?

How does the Kimoto Gravity Well regulate difficulty?

What advantages and disadvantages does Ethereum have over Bitcoin?

What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks?

How thoroughly has Segregated Witness been tested?

What are the trade-offs between transacting on Lightning Network and Bitcoin mainchain?

Can a Bitcoin transaction have the same address for input and output?

Is centralization in the Lightning network inevitable? Why (not)?

How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with Electrum?

What is the minRelayTxFee?

Litecoin has had SegWit for one month, what impact did that have?

How do you make the unicode Bitcoin symbol show correctly in text on Linux?

Are any miners still considering priority in their transaction selection?

Is SegWit a blocksize increase or more efficient use of blockspace?

How does Ethereum achieve consensus?

What contributions have Blockstream developers made to the Bitcoin project?

What are the benefits of Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables for Bitcoin?

What is Open Transactions?

How is a node in the middle prohibited from keeping the money in a routed Payment in Lightning network?

I'm new to Bitcoin, how do I keep my bitcoins secure?

Why would we ever need 10k new addresses in average per day?

What happens to transactions in the mempool when their parent transaction expires?

Why does Taproot require a new address format?

What is the Lightning Network proposal? What problem is it trying to solve?

Where can I find research on wallet fingerprinting?