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Generating and Working With ScriptPubKeys in Bitcoin Transactions
Bitcoin transactions involve locking funds in scripts, which can only be spent if those locking conditions are met. The part of the script that expresses these locking conditions are called ScriptPubKeys. On the other hand, the part that provides unlocking scripts to satisfy the locking conditions is referred to as ScriptSig for legacy transactions, and ScriptWitness for SegWit Transactions. These scripts are evaluated by a stack-based language called Script. This article will mainly focus on ScriptPubKeys.
- Blue Wallet and seed phrases
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Nano S seed compromised?
Here’s the reference https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
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Do you use 12 - 24 words?
There are 5 271 537 971 301 488 476 000 309 317 528 177 868 800 possible permutations of the bip39 wordlist found here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt when using 12 word seeds. You probably have better change to win the lottery every week for the rest of your life than cracking a 12 word seed in correct order
- 24 words
- Creating a custom Bip39 brain wallet
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SEC Charges Kraken for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange
No one controls Bitcoin, because it's a protocol. Bitcoin Core is the reference implementation, but there are others, and anyone can create new implementations if they wish. Also, the Bitcoin Core maintainers can't just change something on a whim, because users would then switch to another fork. Maintainers (or miners or other groups) can't force their changes on users, because everyone can decide on their own which version they want to use.
The protocol development happens through BIPs (Bitcoin improvement proposals): https://github.com/bitcoin/bips
BIPs are discussed for years, before (and if) they are implemented, and basically everyone needs to agree on them, because no one wants to fork the blockchain, which could be devastating.
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Recover Cool Wallet seed to a Ledger?
All the seeds generated from the CoolWallet (Number / Word) adhere to the BIP-39 protocol.
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Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto
> users would be required to hand over control of their wallet to actually manage the massive proliferation of addresses needed
BIP32 solved this in 2012, and is used by basically all self-custodial wallets these days. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
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Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money (2013)
> Which policy are we referring to?
* BIP 141 version bits and BIP 148 as a voting mechanism: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawi... and https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0148.mediawi...
* core developer votes: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support
* posturing and maneuvering: https://cointelegraph.com/news/samourai-wallet-intends-to-ru...
> It evolves in a decentralized and organic manner, devoid of any formal political process or voting.
Just because its voting mechanisms are informal, that doesn't make them not voting mechanisms.
Bitcoin
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Analyzing Bitcoin Transactions with Lightning Node Insights
Ubuntu/Debian: Install LND: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#install-lnd Install Bitcoin Core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#linux-instructions
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Simulate your first Lightning transaction on the Bitcoin regtest network Part 1 (MacOS)
To be able to follow along, you must have both bitcoind and lnd installed.
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Generating and Working With ScriptPubKeys in Bitcoin Transactions
As mentioned previously, ScriptPubKeys are scripts that embody the locking conditions of bitcoins in a Bitcoin transaction. They are a crucial element of a Bitcoin transaction that specifies the requirements that must be met before an unspent transaction output (UTXO) is used. The ScriptPubKey, combined with the Amount, creates an output of a Bitcoin transaction. Like every other script, ScriptPubKeys are made up of operators and data. During the encoding of a transaction, both data and the operands are represented in hexadecimal format. You can find the hex representation for all operands used in Bitcoin Scripts here.
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Understanding BTC Software
Which article? Have a look at Luke's CVE and pull request https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50428 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408
- On chain censorship "war" heats up on BTC with a CVE raised against Ordinals
- What are some of the arguments for / against limiting datacarriersize ?
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BTC's Luke Dashjr: '24 Bitcoin Core Update Will Disrupt Ordinals, BRC-20
From github pull request discussion: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408
- Daily General Discussion - December 10, 2023
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Polling The r/Bitcoin Community: Should Bitcoin be JUST a monetary network for P2P Transactions, Or Also a Platform For Content?
See: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10494
What are some alternatives?
brainflayer - A proof-of-concept cracker for cryptocurrency brainwallets and other low entropy key algorithms.
umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.
P2P-Trading-Exchanges - Person-to-Person bitcoin Trading Exchanges
BitcoinJS - A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language
js-git - A JavaScript implementation of Git.
EIPs - The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
solana - Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
naivecoin - A cryptocurrency implementation in less than 1500 lines of code