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

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How does the Lightning network work in simple terms?

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51 votes

1 answer

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What are Channel Factories and how do they work?

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asked Jan 1, 2018 at 18:16

45 votes

1 answer

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How does Bitcoin Cash implement replay protection?

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44 votes

10 answers

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

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29 votes

3 answers

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How are paths found in Lightning Network?

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asked Apr 11, 2016 at 9:39

22 votes

1 answer

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How does the Kimoto Gravity Well regulate difficulty?

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20 votes

2 answers

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What advantages and disadvantages does Ethereum have over Bitcoin?

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asked Sep 4, 2015 at 9:28

18 votes

2 answers

1k views

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

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asked Jan 29, 2016 at 0:12

17 votes

2 answers

441 views

How thoroughly has Segregated Witness been tested?

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asked Feb 16, 2016 at 14:41

16 votes

2 answers

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What is the minRelayTxFee?

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16 votes

2 answers

1k views

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

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asked Mar 6, 2017 at 10:40

15 votes

4 answers

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

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asked Aug 19, 2013 at 14:20

14 votes

3 answers

3k views

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

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asked Apr 14, 2016 at 19:53

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

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

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asked Mar 17, 2017 at 18:27

12 votes

1 answer

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

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asked Jun 10, 2017 at 17:47

12 votes

4 answers

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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with Electrum?

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11 votes

2 answers

544 views

Are any miners still considering priority in their transaction selection?

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asked Oct 26, 2016 at 16:45

11 votes

1 answer

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

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asked Sep 24, 2014 at 18:51

11 votes

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What contributions have Blockstream developers made to the Bitcoin project?

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asked Jan 18, 2016 at 9:16

11 votes

1 answer

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How does Ethereum achieve consensus?

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asked Sep 4, 2015 at 13:37

11 votes

1 answer

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

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10 votes

4 answers

997 views

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

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asked Jan 14, 2017 at 11:03

10 votes

3 answers

4k views

What is Open Transactions?

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asked Aug 22, 2013 at 18:18

10 votes

1 answer

2k views

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

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asked Mar 4, 2016 at 7:54

9 votes

1 answer

4k views

Why does Taproot require a new address format?

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asked Dec 1, 2020 at 13:22

9 votes

2 answers

1k views

What criteria should be taken into account when selecting nodes to create new lightning channels with?

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asked Jan 4, 2019 at 9:45

8 votes

1 answer

870 views

Why is there no such thing as a redirected, forged, or fake transaction?

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asked Apr 28, 2020 at 7:15

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2 answers

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

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asked Jun 7, 2020 at 16:47

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

How thoroughly has Segregated Witness been tested?

What is the minRelayTxFee?

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

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

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

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

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

How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with Electrum?

Are any miners still considering priority in their transaction selection?

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

What contributions have Blockstream developers made to the Bitcoin project?

How does Ethereum achieve consensus?

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

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

What is Open Transactions?

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

Why does Taproot require a new address format?

What criteria should be taken into account when selecting nodes to create new lightning channels with?

Why is there no such thing as a redirected, forged, or fake transaction?

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

How do BIP8 and BIP9 differ, how are they alike?