Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
To add to Claris' answer something that confused me in the empty scriptPubKey case that was explained to me on IRC this week.
None of the explicitly defined output types thus far (P2PK, P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2WSH, P2SH-P2WPKH, P2SH-P2WSH, P2TR) can...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
People say the total will be 21000000 BTC.
... however:
The 1st 210000 blocks each allow creating 50 BTC.
The 2nd 210000 blocks each allow creating 25 BTC.
The 3rd 210000 blocks each allow creating 12.5 BTC.
...
The 10th 210000 blocks each allow...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
Here's that source code, annotated. Each annotation refers to the code after it.
This means that this part of the code handles both OP_PICK and OP_ROLL. This is because OP_PICK and OP_ROLL are very similar. The only difference is that PICK copies a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 9 years ago
xG ( x of Generator point G) is a carefully selected 256 bit number that is divisible by the elements 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 0111 (1 to 7) i.e
0x79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798 =
550662630222773436695787...