Have the newest (3.+) ver. of Electrum Wallet. I performed the sweep of the private address to acquire BTC from paper wallet . Wallet menu->Private Keys-> Sweep. Performed the operation, the screen showed me the […]

I’ve exported my private keys from Block.io. They’re compressed WIF keys (starting with L…). Additionally I’ve got the following data from Block.io: Address type: P2SH (obviously) Redeem script Redeem script hex Two public keys I’ve […]

I am pretty much a Bitcoin novice. Bought some a few years ago, they went into my Blockchain.info wallet and I only checked it again a few days ago. It says I can get the […]

Using the API endpoint http://localhost:3000/api/v2/create I get this response: {“guid”:”58671a54-7d60-4319-8742-b06fb2a8d060″,”address”:”xpub6CzAMijBVeK5qBxbXc2i4NyGbvr9wLRTJWf58f3mdv7Lb2eeo6Uz9UKq7ntTDdvfDgH6MhuuLJgCAWcto1BX9TA3wpaKU9vomML8MfvdZUD”} It seems to be returning an extended public key rather than an address, how can I get the wallet address to accept payments?

I want to get the data for the total market cap similar to what I see when I view this page in the total market capitalization graph. https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ I already have the Bitcoin market cap […]

Which I think is about 3 years plus old but it was on my old computer which died. I have now recovered the drive at the Bitcoin-qt application but it won’t run on my current […]

I would like to download a full block using Java and bitcoinj and then parse it to an array to be able to work with it. Here is some (very basic) pseudocode: connect to network; […]

My understanding of the blocksize debate is that it would require 51% consensus to change the algorithm and accept the new blocksize. If the algorithm can be changed like this – would the exact same […]

I had funds deposited in my Bitcoin core account about a year and have still not seen them appear in my wallet. Is there a way I can make sure the transaction went through, and […]

I try to understand how a wallet actually works. I know there are lots of resources around the internet, but I still can’t find simple and concise answers for basic questions about wallets and private […]