Why are all fiat currencies inflationary, and lose value with time? Could governments make them deflationary? What are the advantages of inflationary currency compared with deflationary currency?
Why was Bitcoin chosen to be deflationary (limited number of total coins)?
I’m studying scripts and am looking for strange or unusual scripts that have appeared in any of the *coin networks..(outside the standard ones listed on this page)
Ideally there would be an analysis of the script and what’s going on, but I’m not picky. I’d even settle for a command line method to extract this data and discover it myself.
My goal is to learn what contracts are occurring in each network and determine the frequency of each. (How popular is multi-sig tx over time)
Alternatively, I can use this as a tool to learn how people are using the scripting language.
If I understand it right, a stale block is a block for which an earlier confirmation has been found and was accepted by majority of people. This block is considered invalid and is later never used.
But what is a orphaned block. How is it created? How is it verified that it is orphaned and what is done to the orphaned block?
I want to send bitcoins, but cannot unlock my wallet. The rpc password located in \AppData\Roaming does not work. How can I unlock my wallet? Deleting the wallet.dat erases all my bitcoins, which I would like to keep.
I’d like to extract the most performance possible from oclvanitygen. Can anyone tell me what the best practices are with this tool?
Examples may include:
-g option (what is this?)-w option)-d option)
What if my wallet gets hacked and the hacker transfers all BTC to his account?
Is there is any way to get it back, or to open a dispute to specific address or anything else?
I’ve had a Windows host up at 23.23.246.5 for both Bitcoin and Namecoin and I’d like to make sure its configured correctly.
So far when I run a netstat I see the services below and a few things bother me:
Why is Bitcoind listening on port 80?
Why are there no inbound connections to Bitcoin (Prod or Test) or Namecoin? When will I see them?
Is the target host 92.243.23.21:6667 running IRC? If so what is that for?
Are there any questionable connections here?
More Information:
Bitcoin Launch Parameters
bitcoind -debug -server -detachdb -printtodebugger -printtoconsolebitcoin.conf:
#noirc=0
server=0
rpcuser=Ulysseys
rpcpassword=YourSuperGreatPasswordNumber_DO_NOT_USE_THIS_OR_YOU_WILL_GET_ROBBED
#rpctimeout=30
rpcallowip=x.x.x.x <-- my trusted IP set
rpcallowip=x.x.x.x <-- my trusted IP set #2
rpcallowip=x.x.x.x <-- my trusted IP set #3
rpcport=8332
#rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
#rpcssl=1
#rpcsslciphers=TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!AH:!3DES:@STRENGTH
#rpcsslcertificatechainfile=server.cert
#rpcsslprivatekeyfile=server.pem
#allowreceivebyip=1
Namecoin Launch Parameters
namecoind -debug -server -detachdb -printtodebugger -printtoconsolebitcoin.conf
server=1
rpcuser=asdf
rpcpassword=asdf
#rpctimeout=30
#rpcport=8336
#rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
#rpcssl=1
Bitcoin Testnet Launch Parameters
bitcoind -debug -server -detachdb -printtodebugger -printtoconsole -testnet -rpcport=18332NOTE: No bitcoin.conf is present in C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\testnet3 directory assuming it is using \.. parent directory
Output
C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -a -n -b -s
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:8332 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:8333 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:8334 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:8336 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:18332 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:18333 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49163 92.243.23.21:6667 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49164 69.64.46.74:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49167 96.241.176.56:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49170 94.23.34.31:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49181 97.107.137.243:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49182 46.254.14.136:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49183 176.36.33.121:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49186 12.23.127.175:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49193 176.31.128.16:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49194 96.127.133.36:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49220 54.243.38.85:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:49304 178.63.48.141:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:50504 193.107.204.81:6667 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:53098 173.208.219.162:18333 ESTABLISHED 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:53537 99.230.227.73:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:55713 94.236.165.24:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:55716 74.196.224.251:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:56470 195.182.5.221:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:57000 96.60.218.202:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:57083 91.121.174.223:8334 ESTABLISHED 2928
[namecoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:59585 173.167.113.73:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:60574 77.232.139.69:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:63469 89.79.247.234:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP 10.193.55.114:63916 92.241.227.145:8333 ESTABLISHED 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP [::]:8332 [::]:0 LISTENING 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP [::]:8333 [::]:0 LISTENING 2624
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP [::]:18332 [::]:0 LISTENING 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
TCP [::]:18333 [::]:0 LISTENING 2660
[bitcoind.exe]
Vanitygen has the option for a file to contain random numbers as an alternative to the built-in random number generator.
What is the correct way to generate this file on Windows, OSX? (and Linux)
What is the range of each number (upper and lower bound)?
What is the correct format of the file (CRLF, LF only)?
What exactly are colored coins? I’ve tried understanding, but I don’t quite get it yet . . . Do any examples exist?
The Bitcoin Protocol-specification gives an example of double-SHA-256 encoding.
hello
2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824 (first round of sha-256)
9595c9df90075148eb06860365df33584b75bff782a510c6cd4883a419833d50 (second round of sha-256)
I’ve tried various SHA256 calculators and the first encoding matches no problem, but the second always resolves to
d7914fe546b684688bb95f4f888a92dfc680603a75f23eb823658031fff766d9
I’ve also tried UPPERCASE and swapping the byte endianness.