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Questions tagged [development]

The creation and ongoing work for different existing and future Bitcoin-related projects and source code.

There are many software projects being worked on in Bitcoin. This tag can be used for anything from personal projects where you are trying to interact with an API from questions about how to contribute to Bitcoin's development or contributing specific Bitcoin related open source projects.

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what programming languages are used to built bitcoin?

I have one very basic question, I would like to know: what programming languages are used to built bitcoin?
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Is it possible to run Bitcoin on Google App Engine? / alternatives?

This question is cross-posted on bitcoin.stackexchange, stackoverflow and bitcointalks. I'm planning to build an application on Google App Engine that will heavily make use of Bitcoin trading. I've been Googling along a little but I couldn't find…
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Push deposit notification through HTTP requests

Is there any alternative to bitcoinnotify? That send a POST request to a URL on an deposit event to a chosen address. I know there is blockchain.info that send email. And instawallet that where you keep a open socket connection. But I am looking…
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How do I develop web applications for Bitcoin?

Although similar to this question about mobile app development, I would like to know how I should go about the development of web applications that make use of Bitcoin. It can be assumed that all the standard recommendations mentioned in this famous…
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What impact could the patents applied for by Craight Wright have on Bitcoin development if granted?

What impact will this have if all the patents he applied for are granted. Could it create liability for Bitcoin developers who attempt to use some of his patented ideas when making future pull requests? "Since February, Wright has filed more than 50…
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Will be possible to have the same key on more than one wallet?

On pull request https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/220 say will be possible to import/export keys. I would like to know if will be possible to have the same key on different wallets and only be able to spend the bitcoins from this key with…
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What is the age of the youngest known Bitcoin developer?

What is the youngest age of someone known to have submitted a Pull Request to Bitcoin Core?
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Is there a remote Bitcoin API that doesn't require anything to be stored locally?

What I imagine is a trusted centralized server (say run by Mt. Gox or some other exchange), that exposes a simple medium/low level API (let's say in JSON): getTransaction(fromAddress) getTxDetails() executeTransaction() ... I know BitcoinJ does't…
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Can 2 bitcoin-cli's use the same blocksdir

I am trying to set up 2 clients with both using the same block directory is this possible?
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Is there a bitcoin api?

Sorry if my question sounds silly, I get downvoted for some reason everytime I ask it. I just need some help Today I saw the "richest bitcoin wallets" chart and I was inspired to program the same thing, it's interesting for me to know how this type…
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How malleable is the Bitcoin protocol?

Possible Duplicate: How could the bitcoin protocol be changed? Has this ever occurred? Given Bitcoin is a system based on consensus, is it possible and under what situations would the Bitcoin community consider changing some of it's underlying…
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How do I validate the correctness of a bitcoin multisig address?

Normally when validating a bitcoin address I Base58 decode the string, validate the checksum, throw away the checksum, and end up with 21 bytes. Then I verify that the address is fr the correct network: If the first byte is 0x00 I have an address…
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How can a programmer contribute to the Bitcoin project?

I'm a programmer and would like to support the development of Bitcoin, but I don't have an original idea for a new project. Where can I find information about tasks and issues that I could put some effort into?
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Would it be theoretically possible to make a Cryptocurrency in a scripting language like PHP, Python, or Ruby?

Just wondering if this is even possible. If so, are there any practical reasons not to?
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What Off-Chain programming languages are important in Blockchain development

I am looking at getting into Blockchain development, and I would like to have some idea about general programming languages that are relatively important compared to the general developer-market. Myself, I know C++ and C# well, but it would be…
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