mike777

Today marks a big milestone for Samourai Wallet. They’ve kicked off the process of making whirlpool decentralized. The next update for their Samourai Wallet, Whirlpool, and Dojo software won’t rely on hardcoded…

Could anyone clarify this for me? Why does testnet3 have halvings? Given that the coins hold no value, there seems to be no rationale for imposing a supply cap. It might be better to maintain it at 50 tBTC per block…

Here's reality: you either support bitcoin, and accept the idea that there will be noise anywhere close to mining rigs, or you reject bitcoin for this idiotic reason, and consequently show support for the alternative,…

Yeah, you definitely can't live next to this. If I were the people living next to Marathon, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do at the City Hall level, I'd put the house for sale. If I came next to your…

The order of the transactions in terms of block space will be different. When mining, the order of the transactions in transaction data matters. I do not understand your question. What comparison are you trying to make?

A "solo mining pool"? Do you mean you tried solo mining? That's not true. Have you downloaded Bitcoin Core from bitcoincore.org? In Windows, just install the setup (exe). Alternatively, you can run bitcoind and use…

My only concern with treasury companies is that they haven't fully experienced a treasury bear market yet. I do not count MicroStrategy, because they started stacking bitcoin when it was $10k, so they essentially bought…

At that point you have got to change over all the private keys in WIF. I don't know any wallet that allows you to import private key in hex format. Do not worry though, it is easy. You just need to write a small program…

In the event that these keys are derived from a master private key, you may just import its master public key in a wallet that's connected with your node and check there (without connecting your private keys to an…

My two sats on this: Satoshi-era coins are not lost coins, and the fact that we, bitcoiners as majority, have passively accepted them as lost is something that is worth examination. We have seen some of those coins…

How does newly mined gold enters circulation? The miners sell it to gold companies, or over-the-counter in a face-to-face trade, or even rarely hoard the gold. Nothing! Take a look on the first 10 thousand coinbase…

This is the response I expected. Your model operates effectively when there's an alternative chain, such as a sidechain, that retains the image data. However, Ordinals doesn't operate on that premise. The fundamental…

How can you obtain the data solely from R? You're appending a hash to r0, but you're unable to reverse the hash to retrieve the data. Essentially, this is akin to having only OP_RETURN data. I haven't delved into their…

I think there might be a misunderstanding here, or perhaps I'm not following you correctly. Ordinals require storing arbitrary data on-chain; that's essentially their purpose. The main attraction is storing the image…

They do. They wrap arbitrary data in a tapscript and inject it in the witness part of the transaction. An ordinal specifically? No, because the ordinal protocol relies on taproot, AFAIK. However, arbitrary data?…

Theoretically, this can work. I haven't attempted to run Bitcoin Core within Tails, so it's possible that it requires specific configuration settings. I believe there's a misunderstanding. Broadcasting means sending to…

I'm a Tails user. I strongly advise against attempting to download the blockchain onto a USB stick. Relying on such persistent storage for an extended duration is not recommended. In my two years of using Tails, I've…

Concept ACK. I support removing arbitrary limits on Core. Sometime, people need to acknowledge that the nature of Bitcoin is to be a permissionless network, where information can be embedded in many forms, and trying to…

You're mistaken. Firstly, most Bitcoin software consistently presents the recommended transaction fee unless it's offline without internet access. But, let's set that aside. There's no fixed "vbyte cost". When the…

@marc3535, you can either create a symbolic link (with ln -s sourcepath linkpath) as proposed by goodbed or change the datadir in your bitcoin.conf and make it point to the directory that contains your bitcoin data.