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How do I recover from a cryptocurrency scam?
I lost about $45,000 to crypto investment scam just recently. The
company posed as an investment company that could deliver a certain
percentage in returns if you deposit your Bitcoin with them. At first, it seemed real, it worked twice. I didn't…
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What happens to the bitcoin network when the miners all stop in the future?
What happens to the bitcoin network when the miners all stop, years in the future after all the bitcoins have been mined? How will the network continue to function? Won't bitcoins then be useless? What would be the incentive for an individual to…
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How does Bitcoin figure out what time it is?
Bitcoin needs to know the current time in order to validate blocks. How does it decide that?
Note that I'm talking about the Satoshi client specifically.
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How do miners select which transactions to include in a block?
Where and how do you view and select which transactions to include in the block you are trying to create?
Do you look on the blockchain?
Is there some tool that you can use that allows you to see the fees as well?
BitCoin New Guy
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When and how did Bitcoin start?
Exactly when was the first block mined and the first bitcoins generated? How many people knew about the project at this point? Had the project been publicly announced before the first block was mined or did that happen afterwards? Is there anything…
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Why did Satoshi design Bitcoin to be mineable only on specialized hardware, if the goal was decentralization?
GPU-mineable cryptos are arguably more decentralized.
Did he simply miss this design aspect or does this sound fishy to you?
parliament
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I have Bitcoins in a local wallet, how do I get my Bitcoin Cash without using an exchange?
I have a few Bitcoins in a local wallet and I own my private key.
I know that on 1st August 2017, Bitcoin is splitting into BTC and BCC.
How do I get Bitcoin Cash without transferring my Bitcoins to a 3rd party exchange?
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What are the implications of Schnorr signatures?
Adam Back (adam3us) explained in March, 2014, but it is all math. There's another short post with advantages, though.
This answer on crypto.SE claims that Bitcoin considered using Ed25519 which is based on Schnorr signatures, but decided against it.…
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How can I change BTC into normal cash?
Can you eventually hold the bitcoins in your hand, like real cash dollars or euros or something? If so, how?
I've gone through all the service previews and introduction videos (actually, a video), and didn't see anything about this particular…
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Which wallets belong to Satoshi Nakamoto?
I am curious to know which wallets belong to Satoshi Nakamoto? I heard that the BTC in them were never moved.
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What is the strategy behind a sell wall?
I understand the idea behind 'bid walls', but on Kraken, prices are being kept low through the use of 'sell walls'. The volume on this exchange is too low to have a chance of getting through these walls, even when prices on other exchanges are…
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Is it possible to send bitcoins without paying a fee?
I am using the 0.4.0 release. Is it possible to send bitcoins without paying a fee?
Who gets the fee ? Is it only miners discovering new blocks?
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The bitcoin mining algorithm from a programmer's viewpoint
This page: Blocks said mining is actually to solve a mathematical problem, but reading Block hashing algorithm doesn't give much help.
I also tried reading bitcoind source code, but reading code takes much more time than reading documentation:)
And…
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Why the signature is always 65 (1+32+32) bytes long?
A signature created by the Bitcoin-Qt client can always be decoded (base64) to a 65-byte array. This array seems (according to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/key.cpp#L217) to contain a header byte, a 32-byte R part, and a 32-byte…
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Is it possible to get the public key of a bitcoin address I do not have the private keys for with the standard client?
It is possible to get it from here:
https://blockchain.info/de/q/pubkeyaddr
https://blockchain.info/q
Is it possible with the standard client? How?
I am aware that the blockchain only contains the pubkey after a tx from that address.
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