July 6, 2026

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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broadcasting error for raw bitcoin transaction testnet

I am trying to create a raw transaction and send it to the testnet. I am using testnet keys and here is the simplified readable output from my script: decoded private key: efd0171bc0e1a973c75d97cdf38ecccfb2e70227a23cfcdadfed8d9dd1f198c6dc testnet private […]

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