bitcoin core – What are the risks of running a pre-SegWit Node (v12.1)?
Is it safe to assume that Bitcoin is not soft-fork backward compatible? The only benefit of a soft fork over say a hard fork is that old nodes aren’t forked off the network if they fail to validate all the consensus rules. In the case of a hard fork (a relaxation of the consensus rules) […]
transactions – Can a spend before a timestamp condition be put on a Bitcoin UTXO?
You can do this by creating a P2WSH output with the following script: OP_IF <condition 1> OP_ELSE <timestamp> OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY OP_DROP <condition 2> OP_ENDIF Then depending on what condition you’re taking you put 1 or 0 on top of the initial stack when spending. You can also do this more privately (and in most cases cheaply) […]
Is Dogecoin About To Ditch The Hype? Top Traders Predict $1 Price
In a daring proclamation, cryptocurrency trader KALEO and two other top analysts, are shaking the foundations of the market with a bold assertion – the journey of Dogecoin to $1 is not a mere speculative venture but a palpable prospect within the current market cycle. Amidst the noise of market volatility, their confidence adds a […]
Series: “Bóc tách” mùa Halving – Giải mã Bitcoin
10 Mar Series: “Bóc tách” mùa Halving – Giải mã Bitcoin Posted at 12:51h in Education by tammy Phần 1: Nhìn lại các mùa Halving trước & Lý giải sự khác biệt trong mùa kế tiếp Halving Bitcoin là Gì? Halving Bitcoin là một sự kiện quan trọng trong thế giới tiền điện tử, xảy […]
lightning network – Does a pruned node have the same chainstate/ as the unpruned one? Does not seeing historical data impact transacting?
Let’s assume that I have two identical clearnet-only Bitcoin Core nodes on the same ethernet LAN. I then moved 1BTC on the same day of October of 2021 to the Core Lightning wallets connected to those Bitcoin Core nodes and I then funded a private channel on the same day in each of those wallets. […]
Bitcoin Blasts Past $70,000 to Register New All-Time High
The price of bitcoin has shattered records by briefly surging past the $70,000 mark earlier today, signaling a renewed wave of enthusiasm among investors. The top cryptocurrency experienced a steady climb throughout the week with a sustained 12% rally, aided by the introduction of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States. At the […]
wallet recovery – Bitcoin password help,
i had a bitcoin qt wallet in 2013, ii have 2 backup wallet.dat files still, i believe 1 was backup off windows laptop and the other off apple Mac.i no longer have either of the computers or any other files other than the 2 backups. i have just restored these backups into bitcoin core V26 […]