dave_fox

Probably not. I just ran it for 5 mins to get a wallet address, and to test it. Asda is offering soup, bread and butter, and a coffee for £1 at the moment, and they have a couple of tables with power sockets, and the…

I hear what you are saying, but I have at least 8 drives with bits of Bitcoin on them, and I need to sort out the mess. I know one wallet has about $30 worth of Bitcoin on it, and I've forgotten the password. I'm a bit…

An upgrade on my current status. I've just started a new node ( 30.2 ) to run under Ubuntu Studio. It's not a pruned node, so it looks as if will need 800+Gb of storage, and I've only got about 400. I don't have a…

I've taken a break from the online scene for a few months to make some personal changes. I still manage a couple of nodes, but I've been facing some issues lately and I'm thinking it's time to set up a new one. I've…

I've always wondered about the possibility of a bank or financial institution using a private mempool to fill its blocks. Say a bank finances a solar farm which supplies a large village, but isn't connected to an…

I think you may have misunderstood me. I appreciate that once a transaction is confirmed on the blockchain, then it is there forever. My point is that nodes are in control of the mempool, and not the blockchain, and so…

Isn't Bitcoin Knots an attempt to maintain the primary chain with certain transactions excluded. If most of the mempools don't include those transactions, then the current Bitcoin core that includes those transactions…

What happens if he refuses to accept that block, and another miner creates a block without that transaction, and he accepts that. Won't this create a soft fork, and it will be up to other miners to decide which fork to…

Just caught a video from Bitcoin University where the guy claims a node can actually choose to not support a transaction if it has questionable content. He mentions using Bitcoin Knots for this, but it sounds like even…