March 18, 2026

Errors when running bitcoind at startup

Hi i’ve built Bitcoin core 0.15 from source and am trying to get it to run at startup. I’ve used the bitcoind.conf file found in the bitcoin core repository https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/init.md I’m also running Ubuntu 16.04 […]

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The warpwallet challenge 2

here you can find a public challenge aimed to brute force a brain wallet private key, derived from 8 char long [a-zA-Z0-9] passphrase with a salt of “a@b.c”. Is it possible to adapt an hashing […]

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Bitcoin library vs script to develop application

I’m curious about the development of application of Identity management in Blockchain platform, but I’m a bit confused about the technologies to use. In short words, when is more convenient to develop an application coding […]

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How were the secp256k1 base point coordinates decided?

79be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798,483ada7726a3c4655da4fbfc0e1108a8fd17b448a68554199c47d08ffb10d4b8 seems very random to me. I see how this point is on the curve, but how exactly was this specific point chosen to be the base point? Could other base points have worked?

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