I compiled bitcoind using the same steps as last year. In particular I set DB_CONFIG: set_lg_dir database set_lk_max_locks 537000 Unfortunately once I hit block 364,670 (2015-07-10) I’m treated with: EXCEPTION: 11DbException Db::put: Cannot allocate memory […]

TL;DR: Where in this code does the SV client figure out that it’s not processing an ABC blockchain? This image prompted my question. There are a couple different mutually incompatible (I am assuming anyway) implementations […]

In this question What are the advantages of Schnorr vs ECDSA? I see in the Pieter Wuille’s answer the following comment about Schnorr signature batch validation: "Improving verification speed, by supporting batch validation of all […]

I want a Bitcoin cash ABC chain (BCHABC) testnet faucet. Cause 15th Nov. onwards after a hard fork on bitcoin cash network existing bch faucets are not working. Even questions over here are also not […]

Please can someone advise if it is possible to derive the CPubKey from a CSript object? Provided i get it up with an address before hand, I can use numerous functions to attain all the […]

I am learning and trying to implement my own cryptocurrency and I am thinking about how could I achieve the peer to peer connections. I read that Bitcoin is using DNS seeds for discovering users. […]

In a traditional Proof of Work (PoW) scheme it’s assumed it takes some amount of time to compute the PoW function, such as SHA256x2 in Bitcoin and the difficulty increases as the network is capable […]

can anyone explain what are this rpc methods used for: 1.generate https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.16.3/rpc/generating/generate/ from the introduction of generate mehod: Mine up to nblocks blocks immediately but how? Bitcoin is hard to mine, how can this method […]

I trying to do some testing on historical coinbase data. Because I can only get 300 datapoints per request. Im looping the request and change the start and end paramter to got backwards. My requests […]

Suppose that someone seized my seed with a phrase of 12 words. I deliberately changed the order of words in a phrase in such a way that the only way to get a real phrase […]