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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Is BIP 146, which defines using the low S value, still on the docket to be signalled and implemented given that SegWit fixed the txid malleability issue by moving the witness outside the transaction? I’m […]