Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
When you create a private key, this process is (or at least should be) completely random - meaning that in theory, the probability of creating some specific private key is 1/N where N is the number of possible private keys. There's nothing stopping...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 6 years ago
architecture - What Software Patterns does the Bitcoin source code use? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency...
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
When a transaction is orphaned it usually means that it is part of an orphaned block. This happens occasionally so there is no reason to panic :) According to Anonymous in this answer, orphaned transactions are not lost and are returned to the memor...
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...
