Is Binance Coin A Top 5 Contender?
Is Binance Coin A Top 5 Contender? Binance is making some big moves in the market right now. The exchange is capturing the majority of the market share of trades so it shouldn’t come as […]
Institutional BTC exchange Seed CX integrated into Caspian platform
Institutional BTC exchange Seed CX integrated into Caspian platform Seed CX, which through its subsidiaries operates a licensed digital asset exchange for institutional investors, today announced a partnership with Caspian, the full-stack crypto trading, portfolio and […]
Where can I download a snapshot of the Lightning network topology?
I want to study the properties of the Lightning network graph. Is there a way to obtain a reasonably fresh snapshot containing nodes and channels (say, in JSON format)? There are multiple explorers available (e.g. […]
Procedure for Deriving Payment Addresses
I’m trying to understand the HD wallet payment derivation procedure, so assume: Ownership of a Bitcoin HD Wallet on an external smart device Exported account level extended public key (xpub….) from the first account. Derivation […]
RPC for LND: rpc_pb2_grpc vs lnd_grpc
I’m trying to automate launching multiple LND instances with a Python script. I’ve been trying to use lnd_grpc but can’t get it to work. I created an issue in the LND repository and was pointed […]
Bitcoin Testnet API that allows transaction lookup and submission of raw transactions
I’m looking for a well developed, maintained and stable API allowing to access Bitcoin testnet. Something like Infura for Ethereum. Googling gives many results, but can somebody point me out what is really in use? […]
BIP39 Path in Ledger Nano S
On a Ledger Nano S, you are given a BIP39 24 word mnemonic. What is the path to the address used? Is it m/44’/144’/0’/0/0 ? Say for example I use the address generated by the […]
Bcoin initial blockchain sync progress isn’t saved
I’m using bcoin and it’s class FullNode to run a full Bitcoin Node. Here’s the configuration: const node = new bcoin.FullNode({ prefix: ‘/mnt/d/bcoin’, network: ‘testnet’, indexTX: true, indexAddress: true }); And then I start the […]
Do Full Nodes validate all transactions and make new blocks after all bitcoin are mined?
Do Full Nodes validate all transactions after all Bitcoin are mined? A fork of bitcoin core with all coins pre mined would be behaving in this way too I’d imagine..? Also, would these nodes still […]
Bitcoin sent, confirmed on my end – never received on the other end
I made a purchase and paid using Bitcoin. They sent me a link which took me to a coinbase processor. I got the wallet address and sent the money from my Electrum Wallet. I have […]