explorer VS bips

Hi! I followed your tuto. Great, until the end . After confirmation on the wallet (last step) I just see an error page with "Error while loading data, try reloading the page." It refresh automaticaly. So I wait... In wallet I see "stacking revoked" and the new staking with the contract on link (explorer.hiro.so).

I am not enough of an expert to diagnose your problem and you shouldn't trust anyone here. I highly recommend you join the Discord server for any Stacks project you have interaction with because that is where the actual team members are responding to users. Did you go to https://explorer.stacks.co and check the status of your address there?

Testnet is a separate blockchain from the Stacks mainnet and can be thought of a sort of staging environment. It is used by developers to test their apps and smart contracts. The Stacks explorer allows users to switch to testnet view by clicking Network on the top right of the page and selecting stacks.co testnet. There is also a testnet Sandbox available for writing and deploying, making contract calls, and receiving test STX via the STX faucet.

Constructive feedback: perhaps build in a feature that lets the user select between 3 transaction times, i.e slow, normal or fast, similar to Ledger or ZenGo. The wallets calculate the TX fee associated with TX speed based on market conditions (other pending transactions). As it stands I only know how much I should specify by going onto explorer.stacks.co and manually checking the values of transactions in confirmed blocks. Is this a realistic expectation for normal/new users?

Stacks isn't on Etherscan. Use https://explorer.stacks.co/

If you are using the Hiro web wallet at the top click "Create an Account" it will generate another address from your keys down the derivation path. Generate a couple maybe the wallet in question wasn't /0/ in the old wallet. Also check the addresses on the https://explorer.stacks.co/ to see if shows your STX it possible your wallet isn't connecting to the API

Would be nice if the explorer provided this info: https://explorer.stacks.co/

Yeah, also having problems. Seems like the network is down. Timeout on https://explorer.stacks.co and Hiro Wallet not showing activities either

Modern bitcoin addresses use a base-32 character set that leaves out some of the most ambiguous pairs and also permutes the address ordering so that the most visually similar remaining characters produce single bit errors which are better handled by the addresses error detecting (and potentially correcting) code.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...

Context: Bitcoin miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves. This pay cut was baked into Bitcoin protocol at the launch of the network (mostly, see "BIP 42" [1]). The OP link gives information about the block in which this pay cut was made.

I get that HN comments tend to dismiss Bitcoin. But the fact that for the fourth time this pay cut has happened without a hitch speaks volumes to what makes Bitcoin interesting: It's a rare combination of economic incentives and technology that keeps chugging. Nobody can stop it. And it's extremely resistant to change. It requires no governmental approval. All attempts at subversion or interference have failed. There aren't many things that come close to that kind of record.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawi...

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.

Here’s the reference https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

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

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.

All the seeds generated from the CoolWallet (Number / Word) adhere to the BIP-39 protocol.