April 15, 2026

Why we need mining?

I know is related to these: What is the rationale behind Bitcoin mining? Why do we need Proof of Work in bitcoin? But I don’t fully understand those answers, and I think usually is much […]

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lightning network funding transaction clearification

Im trying to understand the funding transaction for a channel on the lightning network. I am wondering how the input looks like to the funding transaction. Does it require In_{Alice}(tx_{id}, tx_{index},redeem_script) and In_{Bob}(tx_{id}, tx_{index}, redeem_script) […]

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What’s a unique identifier in listsinceblock output?

I am trying to understand if there a unique identifier for transactions. I didn’t find anything about that mentioned in listsinceblock‘s help. { “involvesWatchonly”: true, “account”: “”, “address”: “mvd6qFeVkqH6MNAS2Y2cLifbdaX5XUkbZJ”, “category”: “receive”, “amount”: 10, “label”: “”, […]

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