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I’m running a Bitcoin Core node headless on a couple of Raspberry Pi 4B units with 8 GB of RAM. I also run Electrs or Fulcrum as personal Electrum servers. Bitcoin Core plus Electrs just fits on a 1 TB SSD, but for…

Been thinking about this more. Honestly, I see it as a big setback that pools can fork like this. If that happens, how do they decide which branch to stick with? It’s like a gamble since mining is all about luck with…

Yeah, decentralization sounds legit. I mean, I saw that block 912721 was in both UpdateTip events, same hash. But why the need for a second UpdateTip? It shouldn't have mattered with the fork of 912722. 912723 chose the…

I noticed something odd while checking out the block explorer recently. A few mining pools seem to be forking their own blocks. Totally didn’t see this happening on my node though, so not sure what's going on.

Exactly! When you create a watch-only wallet in Electrum, it warns you. You need those private keys safe somewhere else, or you’re not in control of the coins in there. Remember, coins are on the blockchain; wallets…

Sounds like you’re using a watch-only wallet. Those don’t have private keys, so you can't sign any transactions. How did you create that wallet? Do you have access to the wallet with the private keys? Any recovery words?

I did some testing on my gaming computer which has a AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, 64GiB RAM and a Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU 12GiB GDDR6. Software used was JLP Kangaroo v2.2 Test private key: 18 missing WIF symbols (trailing), WIF…

It's probably not a bad idea to separate the two cases, although they are pretty similar. notkim was able to solve his recovery case which is nice. A solved problem is something to learn from with a bit more…

I have Telegram, very rarely use it, don't really like it because there are a lot of shady folks on Telegram, haha. I can't really say, because as I said, I very very rarely use it. Why do you want to go to Telegram?…

Looks good to me, based on the numbers and length of items. A compressed private key WIF is 52 chars long and starts either with K... or L... Your hex range has to be of length 64 (=44+20). Your MIN HEX and MAX HEX are…

I can't really judge if you defined your start and end hex range correctly. Shouldn't be too hard. Both start and end hex range should have around 44 identical hex characters at the start and about 20 hex characters at…

I have a Bitcoin address which I fully control in my forum profile. You can see it when you click on my account name and I can post it here, too: I don't expect to get something, my help is voluntary and usually for…

There usually no need to full-quote my or others posts. Just quote the details you want to comment on. And pay attention not to break rule #32 of Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ. I…

Rounding isn’t really an issue when we talk halvings. It’s a straight-up binary halving, so no fractions pop up. Bitcoin only deals with whole Satoshis anyway, so it all stays clean.

I noticed the same thing. The transaction 54559adfc79b04fa16864d3c7ba789aa771fce59d4763e5d7cabcf6f95138c70 had RBF enabled, which raises red flags.

You’re not giving enough info here. What’s the deal? Just saying a transaction is stuck for 8-9 months isn’t enough. Who keeps rebroadcasting it for half a year?

Man, I miss the days when bitcoin was all about freedom and sticking it to the government. Now we're just worried about how Core 30 might tick off regulators.

Remember, there are no crypto coins on the ledger, just private keys for UTXOs on the blockchain. Use your mnemonic recovery words to access everything stored on that lost ledger.

+1 to what you said. Profitability definitely matters for bot operators. Like, the resources they’re pouring in must depend on how much they can snatch versus what it costs to run the bot. The whole ‘huge database’ idea…

It’s not stored on the blockchain, but in the address script. That script sets the required signers and includes their public keys. If you’re into coding, check out some resources on scripting.