User David Schwartz - Bitcoin Stack Exchange

David Schwartz

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902 Answers

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How do Bitcoin clients find each other?

answered May 1, 2012 at 6:15

100 votes

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How does merged mining work?

answered Aug 31, 2011 at 12:28

97 votes

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Does hoarding really hurt Bitcoin?

answered Sep 2, 2011 at 2:05

67 votes

What is a compressed Bitcoin key?

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 10:36

57 votes

What exactly is Mining?

answered Aug 30, 2011 at 23:47

48 votes

What methods could a government use to shutdown Bitcoin?

answered Sep 1, 2011 at 15:52

46 votes

Should I leave the Bitcoin client open?

answered Aug 31, 2011 at 18:02

42 votes

Is there a way to set up proof-of-work systems so they would be even more useful?

answered Sep 1, 2011 at 5:27

40 votes

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Have any cryptography experts vetted the bitcoin source code?

answered Sep 1, 2011 at 15:45

40 votes

How does change work in a bitcoin transaction?

answered Sep 8, 2011 at 3:06

37 votes

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Nonce size - Will it always be big enough?

answered Oct 28, 2011 at 3:08

37 votes

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How does the bitcoin client make the initial connection to the bitcoin network?

answered Nov 20, 2011 at 19:48

36 votes

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Can I use my wallet on different computers?

answered Sep 3, 2011 at 13:44

35 votes

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How do Scripts work?

answered Sep 4, 2011 at 17:00

34 votes

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What are the bandwidth requirements of a mining rig?

answered Sep 1, 2011 at 13:29

33 votes

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How is block-solution-withholding a threat to mining pools?

answered Oct 3, 2011 at 3:26

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How does Ripple solve the double-spend problem?

answered Feb 11, 2013 at 14:39

32 votes

What is the coinbase?

answered Aug 27, 2012 at 23:11

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Who gets Bitcoin transaction fees?

answered Apr 17, 2013 at 15:47

31 votes

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Why does Bitcoin use two hash functions (SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160) to create an address?

answered Apr 5, 2013 at 21:03

29 votes

What are bitcoin "confirmations"?

answered Aug 30, 2011 at 23:50

28 votes

Why is bitcoin written in C++?

answered Sep 5, 2016 at 23:44

26 votes

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Is it worthy to use "bitcoin usb block erupter"

answered Aug 5, 2013 at 8:34

25 votes

How is Bitcoin supposed to serve as currency when it is all but impossible to spend at the moment (12/2017)?

answered Dec 19, 2017 at 21:07

25 votes

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How is it possible to launder bitcoins?

answered Aug 31, 2011 at 18:08

23 votes

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Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus - Why 33% threshold

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 12:57

23 votes

What are stale shares and what can I do to avoid them?

answered Oct 7, 2011 at 22:58

23 votes

What is the coin selection algorithm?

answered Sep 15, 2011 at 8:06

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How Ripple is different from Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies?

answered Feb 13, 2013 at 2:47

22 votes

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Is it possible to send bitcoins without paying a fee?

answered Sep 26, 2011 at 21:53

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