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OK, thanks. I funded the hash of the following script: Which is a signed "Hello World" message. It only takes you to publish this script to get the testnet bitcoin from here:…

I recently discovered Liquid and I’ve been playing around with it a bit. It’s way more adaptable for testing things like disabled or not yet available OP codes in Bitcoin. I’ve been using scriptwiz.app to create my…

Old smartphones barely have 100 GB in storage. If your goal is to help the network in terms of bandwidth, it's required to store and transfer the entire blockchain, which is far bigger in size than that. There is no…

It is safer in the sense that an Internet connected computer is prone to be compromised by an attacker via the Internet, whereas it is simply physically impossible for this to happen on an airgapped device. My instinct…

Alternative title: The Economist finds the ultimate cope to declare bitcoin dead for the 478th time. Hard money does not need cultural phenomena to grow in value. The more boring it might seem, the more effective as a…

My journey looked like this: You don't understand of x? Create a new topic.Read more about the technical parts, in sources like learnmeabitcoin.com. Whatever you don't know, go to step 1.Try to make out how we ended up…

How can you prove to someone that you generated a random number? Try answering yourself this question, and see why this consensus protocol is infeasible to have.

Stop and don't retry that migration yet. If you're on Core 30.0 or 30.1 there's a known bug where a failed legacy wallet migration can wipe everything in the wallet dir. First thing: copy your wallet.dat somewhere safe…

Listen. If you can't write in English, then please don't tell us off. Everyone in this topic is merely trying to help you. There is no disrespect in telling you the obvious; we can't make much sense from the translation…

The bad thing with huge exchange bankruptcies (like FTX and MtGox) is that they create ambience for regulations, and usually regulations do more harm than good when it comes to the free market. Indeed. And the winners…

The economy is a casino. Money isn't real. You see all stocks getting pumped for some reason, and it's just newly printed money that's buying the stocks. Then, Jerome Powell goes and the entire panel is drowning in…

It is a global currency already. In almost every country in this world you can find individuals who will accept it as means of payment. What you mean is the global reserve currency, with the corresponded regulations. My…

Have you tried disabling incoming connections temporarily and see how many connections you'll have? The default option is to accept 11 outgoing max. What do you mean? How can you have more than one configuration file?…

Unfortunately, as already been said, grouping text to 64 hex characters could be much beyond Bitcoin. Passwords, messages, it could pretty much be anything. If you have access to his computer, search as much as possible…

This is not how taxes work. Whatever you gain, whether that's bitcoin, gold, paintings, NFTs, cars, houses, cash etc., is considered estate. You don't need to buy bitcoin to get taxed or oppositely: If you don't buy…