If I have the public key and signature for a transaction how do I get the hash value that is used in verify(hash, sig, pubkey). I want to know how to work backwards from a […]

Been trawling through a lot of information (I know this similar issue has probably come up a fair bit) on this issue and going round in circles a bit. I am not the most tech […]

I setup BitcoinD on a Windows 7 PC. I configured for defaults except user/pw and rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0. have also tried 192.168.1.* with no luck. I ultimately want to use an Antminer to connect to it for […]

I know that in the case of electrum there is a gap limit and it will keep generating addresses until it finds a number of consecutive empty addresses equal to the gap limit. What about […]

this is two weeks I am trying to crack my MultiBit portfolio, I do not remember my password recorded in July; I have no old file save my wallet, the word must be no more […]

Lets say someone started making real viable quantum computers that were affordable enough that large companies could buy one. And lets say a quantum algorithm was devised to crack the private keys of Bitcoin public […]

Can I use my Bitcoins to buy household commodities just like ordinary money? You see, I’m a newbie and have yet to learn the basics including all the facts about Bitcoins. However, I want to […]

I want to fetch transactions for an address from the following api: https://blockchain.info/address/$btc_address?format=json The thing is understanding the json returned from the api, I don’t understand which of them are the transaction and the time […]

I am wondering if I can use node.js and levelup to access a copy of the blockchain database directly. But from what I can see, I need to know the name of the key(s) before […]

The following link contains details on how to reverse the ECDSA signature if given two identical “R” values. http://www.nilsschneider.net/2013/01/28/recovering-Bitcoin-private-keys.html I have read over this and there’s one part I don’t understand; how he got the […]