Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Q1) What are the possible attacks (even though completely theoretical) which are possible in case 2 but not in case 1. Please elaborate security-model change required to shift from Case 1 to Case 2.
None. If there happens to be a fork that makes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
Neither currencies nor coins are stored anywhere but at addresses out on the blockchain.
You may be talking about the secrets that give authority to send / spend those assets?
Seed Recovery phrases, passwords, PIN codes, private keys, master extende...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
It is a thing that can be done, but it requires trust. Any user may, at any time, confirm the chain they have is a legitimate chain by starting from the genesis block. They merely need to crank through a few gigabytes of data and hash it all. Oka...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
I am running a bitcoin node on my machine, fully synced with RPC commands enabled, rpc server live and txindex=1.
In the command-line I can run the following RPC call and obtain the information about the transaction I require. I am...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 7 years ago
I have read the related discussions about how to import a wallet and though they are close, the answers does not help with this problem so I'm asking it here and now.
I have my bitcoin public address which was given to me by blockc...