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 […]

I create an app which allow each user to own 20 wallets that support 20 coins (BTC, eth, monero, neo etc), as well as support but BTC with USD. IF i want to retrieve last […]

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) […]

I’m trying to use the python-bitcoinlib library but its docs aren’t entirely clear to me. I’m a programmer but quite new to Python, and not very versed in the Bitcoin protocol. What’s the process, code-wise, […]

As the title states I am looking for a Bitcoin Cash faucet. I know about the very nice one: https://testnet.manu.backend.hamburg/bitcoin-cash-faucet but it seems to be down at the moment. A google search does not yield […]

I´m trying to recover a wallet from which the Master Private Key (mpk) in hex format and the number of used addresses is known. Till now I could manage to convert the hex mpk to […]

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”: “”, […]

If I generated 24 words from a Ledger Nano, can I import these to a lightning network wallet e.g. Eclair?

I have cloned an older version of Litecoin using a tutorial. I chose the starting letter for the public addresses to be lower case “x”. Everything is working fine except for importprivkey. It will always […]

I’m using this library: https://github.com/lian/Bitcoin-ruby And here’s my code: require ‘open-uri’ require ‘net/http’ require ‘net/https’ require ‘json’ require ‘Bitcoin’ Bitcoin.network = :testnet3 def get_response(prev_tx) url = “https://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/rawtx/#{prev_tx}” uri = URI(url) response = Net::HTTP.get(uri) response = […]