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  • ...k is adjusted so as to limit the rate at which new blocks can be generated by the network to one every 10 minutes. Due to the very low probability of suc ...r contain a large amount of work. Changing a block (which can only be done by making a new block containing the same predecessor) requires regenerating a
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  • ...-server''. You can control it via the command-line bitcoin-cli utility or by [http://json-rpc.org/wiki/specification HTTP JSON-RPC] commands. ...uthentication] must be used when communicating with it, and, for security, by default, the server only accepts connections from other processes on the sa
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  • The Contributors' Award was a contest offered by [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] intended as a way to divide wiki donations a Only a bitcoin address put there by the user himself would be accepted.
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  • ...Bitcoin protocol is specified by the behavior of the reference client, not by this page. In particular, while this page is quite complete in describing t ...' components into a single byte stream (this is also what OpenSSL produces by default).
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  • The wallet contains a pool of queued keys. By default there are 100 keys in the [[key pool]]. The size of the pool is co ...ot logged in as that user, data that is saved there can't be browsed, even by a root user. If something goes wrong with your system, and you need to decr
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  • Wallet encryption is achevied by storing a 4096 bytes RSA key pair in the wallet. The private key is encrypt
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  • Invoices can be generated at no cost by any user of Bitcoin. Like e-mail addresses, you can send bitcoins to a person by sending bitcoins to one of their invoice addresses.
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  • * Use a wallet backed by your own [[full node]] or [[client-side block filtering]], definitely not a The linkages between addresses made by transactions are often called the transaction graph. Alone, this informatio
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  • Communication with the server is done using HTTP POST requests on port 8332 by default, containing JSON-encoded data. For pooled mining, users are require The calculations are performed by multiple concurrent threads, so as to take advantage of the capabilities of
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  • ...of hardware, both CPUs and GPUs included. OpenCL was originally developed by Apple. ...the forum]</ref> based on the open source CUDA client originally released by puddinpop<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg1
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  • ...ly random, it is prohibitively difficult to try to produce a specific hash by changing the data which is being hashed. ...gnalled replace-by-fee (RBF, BIP125) and the new version increases the fee by at least 1 satoshi/byte.
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  • A '''block chain''' is a transaction database shared by all [[Node|nodes]] participating in a system based on the Bitcoin protocol. Honest generators only build onto a block (by referencing it in blocks they create) if it is the latest block in the long
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  • ...ou calculate has the same chance of winning as every other hash calculated by the network.
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  • ...integer arithmetic steps, single floating point divide, and a single scale-by-power-of-2. The average time to find a block can be approximated by calculating:
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  • ...he same hash will always result from the same data, but modifying the data by even one bit will completely change the hash. Like all computer data, hashe
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  • ...uring the transaction. When they see that you're sending a Bitcoin payment by IP address, they pretend to be the actual destination and send back ''their
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  • ...r to find the more people who are looking for them). You trade them to me by sending them to my bitcoin address. Inside the software, a messages is cre ...because everybody else can check to see if your coins really were created by the "race" process, or if they were from valid trades.
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  • Such restrictions will be specified by those descriptors. Such restrictions will be specified by those descriptors.
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  • * ''getdata'' - Request a single block or transaction by hash. The time data from all of your peers is collected, and the median is used by Bitcoin for all network tasks that use the time (except for other version m
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  • ...rmation purposes only. De facto, Bitcoin script is defined by the code run by the network to check the validity of blocks. Positive 0 is represented by a null-length vector.
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  • ...be lower than or equal to the current target for the block to be accepted by the network. The lower the target, the more [[difficulty|difficult]] it is ...problem more or less difficult. A single retarget never changes the target by more than a factor of 4 either way to prevent large changes in difficulty.
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  • ...include in any Bitcoin on-chain [[transaction]]. The fee may be collected by the miner who includes the [[transaction]] in a [[block]]. ...ould be harder and less efficient for the recipient to specify the fee, so by custom the spender is almost always solely responsible for paying all neces
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  • ...ion - it is undefined. Versions greater than 2 are reserved for future use by the protocol. Flag and Witness are mandatory for any transaction that inclu ...sequence number is < 0xFFFFFFFF: Makes the transaction input [[RBF|Replace-By-Fee]]
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  • The [[wallet]] is stored unencrypted, by default, and thus becomes a valuable target for theft. Recent releases of Bitcoin makes these attacks more difficult by only making an outbound connection to one IP address per /16 (x.y.0.0). In
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  • ...y Zarutian, but the first version of this wiki page included modifications by theymos. The main design goal is to produce URIs that are concise enough to * encoded_private_key is a base64url encoded private key used by Bitcoin.
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  • ...Map''' was a nameless project based on the analysis of addresses exchanged by bitcoin nodes. (This is not to be confused with a collaborative map of Bit Based on the collected information, and by passing the collected IPs through Maxmind's GeoIP database, a map was creat
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  • An open source Bitcoin [[Pooled Mining|pooled mining]] server created by puddinpop. ...a JSON-based protocol with the [[RPC Miner]] pooled mining clients created by puddinpop.
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  • ...bitcoin", ponzis and other frauds are exposed. This makes Bitcoin stronger by removing weak players from the system.
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  • Term-deposits and other time liabilities are not limited by a full reserve banking policy. However the bank should plan to have enough In the Bitcoin world, inasmuch as exchanges have acted like banks by holding user Bitcoin balances, we have seen instances of [[Fractional Reser
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  • * Best in class security, designed and monitored by global experts.
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  • ...nomic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth]]" and later expanded upon by [[Friedrich Hayek]]. F. A. Hayek, (1935), "The Nature and History of the Pr ...20s and 1930s, and that specific period of the debate has come to be known by [[Economic history|economic historians]] as ''The [[Socialist Calculation D
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  • [[File:Cryptocurrency by a sovereign (2).jpg|thumbnail|Eradicator of Underground Economy]] ...Underground Economy (final).pdf|thumbnail|Design of Cryptocurrency for use by Sovereign Nation (PDF)]]
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  • This stores uncompressed blocks of LevelDB data and is managed by LevelDB, as described in [http://leveldb.googlecode.com/git-history/1.17/do By "blockchain" this means the entire block tree (all known blocks, not just t
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  • ...to be written, each must sign a higher sequence number (see IsNewerThan). By signing, an input owner says "I agree to put my money in, if everyone puts The parties could create a pre-agreed default option by creating a higher nSequenceNumber tx using OP_CHECKMULTISIG that requires a
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  • ...hange.com/questions/11104/what-is-the-database-for?rq=1 StackExchange post by Pieter Wuille (2013)] * Calculate the total disk usage by block & undo files
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  • '''Bitcoin Charts''', run and maintained by tcatm, is a collection of statistics and graphs about the bitcoin economy.
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  • ...er that make payment from the browser possible. Its development was funded by forum users, who made pledges totaling 300 BTC.
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  • ...Market''' was a [[bitcoin]] [[currency exchange]] site owned and operated by [[bitcointalk]] user dwdollar. ...ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20.msg748#msg748 Announcement by dwdollar]</ref>
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  • ...rate, in a given time period, at given difficulty. uses current difficulty by default. ...late expected BTC generation per day and per hour. uses current difficulty by default.
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  • A '''share''' is awarded by the mining pool to the clients who present a valid [[proof of work]] of the ...problem with pooled mining is that steps must be taken to prevent cheating by the clients and the server. Currently there are several different approache
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  • ...ll trades are conducted between users directly, without any intermediation by the marketplace. The system calculates the cumulative trust received by a user from all ratings. Through the web interface, users can explore the t
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  • supply is limited and not controlled by any party.
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  • ...to banks. One first deposits amounts of money in the currencies supported by the exchange, to his own account in the exchange, uses these balances to tr ...exchange for another currency at a maximum price-per-bitcoin which is set by the offerer. "Sell" orders (or "asks") are offers to sell bitcoins at a min
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  • ...hat the message is authentic. The complete history of transactions is kept by everyone, so anyone can verify who is the current owner of any particular g ...generate a valid block. This way, no party can overwrite previous records by just forking the chain.
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  • ...ps://isidore.co/calibre/browse/book/5277 <i>Interest and Usury</i>] p. 220 by [https://www.jstor.org/stable/29769582 Fr. Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.] (1903- In a centralized economy, currency is issued by a central bank at a rate that is supposed to match the growth of the amount
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  • ...uilt and tested, and periodically given a "release candidate" tag followed by a version tag which is then an official, stable Bitcoin Core release.
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  • * They can be destroyed by attacking the central point of control * Arbitrary rules can be imposed upon their users by the controllers
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  • ...not only hiding the content of messages, but also hiding who is talking to whom (traffic analysis). Tor provides anonymous connections that are strongly re ...to torify it. Briefly, it involves changing the SOCKS5 proxy settings used by the application (for example, <code>wget</code> or a browser) to point to 1
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  • The abstract script consists of a series of words separated by spaces, evaluated from left to right. The mnemonic for each opcode is given ...list of hashes in the Merkle tree. You can see how the tree is constructed by looking at the ordering. The bottom tier is listed first, then the next-hig
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  • ...ernative to the decimal and SI ("metric") system, which improves usability by allowing for infinite binary division (note that Bitcoin protocol support i In tonal, you would count: an, de, ti, go, su, by, ra, me, ni, ko, hu, vy, la, po, fy, ton, ton-an, etc...
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