Surprised this one hasn’t been asked yet. But how / what is the recommended best practice for shutting down bitcoind ? Right now I’m manually killing the process with either sudo kill {pid} or if […]

I am trying to run the following code $betamount=$_POST[‘bet’]; $litecoin->move($myusername,Admin,$betamount); but it will not work. it does however work when i replace $betamount with an actual number ie $litecoin->move($myusername,Admin,0.2); or $betamount=0.1; $litecoin->move($myusername,Admin,$betamount); any ideas on […]

I am going to develop an exchange website in PHP something like http://coinbase.com, Now, I have setup the http://bitcoindevkit.com/ for it and its running fine generating new addresses in the same wallet, but now I […]

I did these things but Bitcoin still says 0 connections. What’s the problem? Windows 7 32bit. Installed bitcoin-qt Installed Tor Browser bundle I allowed all local outbound connections in my firwall (remote connections allowed only […]

I’ve seen the term “dust” used to describe small transactions that might be considered as spam by the Bitcoin network. Is there is a generally accepted definition of this term?

where in the Bitcoin Protocol is SHA256(SHA256(x)) performed and why?

I’m trying to understand how a partial fill would / should happen at an exchange and how that would occur For example, if the BTC rate was $10/BTC and Someone wanted to buy 100 BTC […]

The blockchain.info API allows for querying information about a particular Transaction by its ID. But if you want to follow the coins to the next transaction, I’m not seeing what the next query should be. […]

I am using BitcoinJ for my java application which fetches the test network’s genesis block. I referred to the basics mentioned at JavaWorld and BitcoinJ’s Google Code wiki. I am able to get it running […]

In the situation that you want no individual to have the complete private key, but you do want to share the complete key between 3 individuals, of which any 2 can construct the complete key, […]