Currently I’m reading a great book Mastering Bitcoin and the author on his first articles suggests to the reader build from the source Bitcoin Core environment and down load the whole blockchain ledger (about 60Gb) […]

EDIT 3 Bumping my VPS to 1GB of physical RAM stopped the crashing issue… UNTIL said VPS ran out of disc space. I added prune=10240 to my ~/.Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf file such that the blockchain file would […]

Is there any help/tutorial on how to build the Merkle root from stratum data? The Slushpool’s stratum protocol has an example of a mining job but it does not contain any Merkle branches and I […]

I followed this instructions https://github.com/Bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/gitian-building.md but on this step: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/gitian-building.md#setting-up-the-gitian-image i have got an error: cp: cannot stat ‘base-trusty-amd64-bootstrap/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/lxc-init’: No such file or directory debian@debian:~/gitian-builder$ How to fix it?

I installed the Electrum 2.7.9 wallet and it never went through the password and seed setup. I ended up with a default standard wallet. I then uninstalled the Electrum wallet and then reinstalled it. Once […]

I am looking for a API function as the first version of the API blockchain.info (no API key). If there are none, I’d like you to tell me where to turn to create an API […]

Can someone who is looking at the blockchain detect that 2 or more addresses generated by a single HD wallet are actually generated by that single seed/HD wallet ? Can someone who does know that […]

Multibit HD is only connecting with one peer. This issue randomly started a few weeks ago. Initially, I had to keep restoring my wallet to a previous date since my balance kept reverting to uncomfirmed. […]

I know that maybe it’s a bit early to start asking Wallets to implement Lightning Network connections even if the majority don’t support SegregatedWitness yet. But how about Payment Channels? In theory they have already […]