this is followup on question #85475: I have learned in previous question that there is an automatic refund mechanism in case of force closure of a channel, except for some very rare circumstances. I would […]

I sent a transaction to the testnet address mzWCWQU6phb9rKSAiQ4FBU92sGYtY7tjPH a few days ago and I have been using the testnet.blockchain.info api for a while now in my project. It was working fine last month but […]

Hard drive crashed and requires professional recovery (likely needs newly built heads by professionals in a clean room). I don’t recall what windows desktop Bitcoin wallet software I installed and used about 8 years ago. […]

I’ve a Bitcoin address on which I made a couple of transactions. From what I understand of the blockchain, the ledger is public and anyone can list the transactions linked to a particular address. If […]

Trying to finalize importing BTC from a BIP38 Paper Wallet into Electrum wallet About an hour ago I opened Electum 3.3.4, created a new wallet, set a password, saved a copy of the new wallet […]

Assuming a transaction size is T Bytes, while maximum block size is B Bytes, such that T>B. What happens for this transaction? It will be divided into two smaller parts and will be stored in […]

I am new to Bitcoin core development. I have created a clone using bitcoin core on a mac os mojave 10.14.3. I am have installed all dependencies and am able to run the autogen.sh and […]

I am trying to create a new Bitcoin address and store it in a shell variable $NEW_ADDRESS. When I run this command: $NEW_ADDRESS=$(./bitcoin-cli getnewaddress) I get the following errors: error: Could not connect to the […]

I cannot find where to get the host to complete a lightning channel. I have tried searching in the command prompt but cannot find host info anywhere.