As I understand the SVP protocol, a client can be reasonably certain that a transaction has been accepted on the blockchain if they know it is a member of a certain block, via the Merkle […]

I’m considering a scenario in lightning, where it would be extremely useful to be able to lock the funds in 2/3 lock Is this possible on lightning network (even in theory)?

The example is in here: https://www.blockchain.com/BTC/tx/63910fdfa84db96bd1f28fead4c32f97388d5368c10059d035aac3c5f72fcdc0 Actually, there are two outputs DUP HASH160 PUSHDATA(20)[78ce48f88c94df3762da89dc8498205373a8ce6f] EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG and RETURN PUSHDATA(36)[aa21a9ed9463ee420b10cbad1d997bfa132a89dc9ba3de04e7233e6e6954f1bc339ebb1a] The strange point is the first output has 12.77303443 BTC, the second is 0 BTC. There […]

I am trying to send a transaction in the cli using electrum with the command ~$ electrum –testnet payto mvYrQck9VfujSanmwvQxiLab3fLuywGdvh 0.01 -f 0.002 Password: (I entered the correct password here) Q { “complete”: true, “final”: […]

I am new to the whole Bitcoin thing, and I am having my first attempt almost going sour. I lost where I created my wallet. I have my Bitcoin address and only 11 of my […]

This already summaries the issue I’m currently trying to figure out to calculate the transaction fee to prevent negative balance. (testnet) I tried using createrawtransaction answered. When I tried to send all balance to an […]

I’ve created a crypto-currency wallet for Bitcoin using BitcoinJ. Now I want to add Litecoin in this wallet. How to implement BitcoinJ dependency for Litecoin? While using BitcoinJ for both Litecoin and Bitcoin, I was […]

I followed the tutorial https://medium.com/@meeDamian/c-lightning-node-on-rbp3-b950660fb835 without error. When I type: sudo systemctl start lightningd I get Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found. Note: Blockchain syncronization is not finished Any idea? thank you

Lets say that I execute the code below when the user accesses the deposit page. my_private_key = random_key() my_public_key = privtopub(my_private_key) my_address = pubtoaddr(my_public_key) And I let the user deposit into my_address. How would I […]