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  • ...of trial and error is required ''on average'' before a valid proof of work is generated. Bitcoin uses the [[Hashcash]] proof of work system. ...ily (not much work is required for a single email), but mass spam emailers will have difficulty generating the required proofs (which would require huge co
    5 KB (784 words) - 13:54, 6 June 2020
  • A [[Original Bitcoin client/API Calls list|list of RPC calls]] will be shown. If you are learning the API, it is a very good idea to use the test network (run bitcoind -testnet and bitcoin
    23 KB (2,757 words) - 13:51, 22 August 2021
  • ...s within 3 days, after making sure the listed address for each contributor is correct. Sessions were planned to last for one month, however this was subject to change to reflect the amount of donations received and work
    5 KB (855 words) - 01:00, 6 April 2014
  • ...of the reference client, not by this page. In particular, while this page is quite complete in describing the [[network]] protocol, it does not attempt Type names used in this documentation are from the C99 standard.
    59 KB (8,414 words) - 18:08, 30 July 2021
  • ...Bitcoin LLC and a mailing address in Nevis. It is not known if this truly is an LLC and if so, where the organization was located. There has been no me ...ensure that for all Bitcoins in circulation in the MyBitcoin System there is at all times an identical quantity of unencumbered Bitcoins held in MYBITCO
    2 KB (258 words) - 02:03, 10 June 2019
  • '''Java Bitcoin Client''' is a [[Bitcoin]] frontend / API written in java.
    399 bytes (44 words) - 12:22, 31 March 2013
  • ...ansferred offline for verification and signing, and the signed transaction is transferred online to be transmitted to the Bitcoin network. ...imilar to hardware wallets, except that a general purpose computing device is used instead of a special purpose peripheral.
    24 KB (3,885 words) - 22:09, 17 June 2020
  • The QBitcoin Wallet is a separate process allowing wallet manipulations. It is meant to be lightweight, and portable. It depends on no external library an ...wallet contains no information on the amount stored on each address (this is up to the frontend).
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  • A '''Bitcoin invoice address''', or simply '''invoice''', is an identifier of 26-35 alphanumeric characters, beginning with the number < It is also possible to get a Bitcoin invoice address using an account at an excha
    8 KB (1,314 words) - 18:54, 23 October 2020
  • ...s some nuance - in certain situations, bitcoin can be very private. But it is not simple to understand, and it takes some time and reading. This article was written in February 2019. A good way to read the article is to [[#Examples and case studies|skip to the examples]] and then come back t
    159 KB (24,866 words) - 08:59, 31 December 2023
  • ...[[Pooled Mining]] mode, this block is called a "share" because the server is supposed to credit the registered user's account, according to the number o ...ssword authentication is required. For solo mining, the username/password is set in bitcoin.conf.
    2 KB (358 words) - 01:31, 1 June 2015
  • ...to perform the [[hash|hashing]] computations. When used with a modern GPU, this can produce hash rates orders of magnitude higher than what can be achieved OpenCL is a computing framework which allows programmers to write code which works ac
    3 KB (412 words) - 00:14, 18 August 2012
  • ...re linked together for the purpose of verifying transactions within blocks is called the block chain. ...Block Reward." The reward (a.k.a., subsidy) is halved every four years and is responsible for bitcoin's [[controlled supply]].
    12 KB (1,795 words) - 00:39, 24 June 2018
  • ...chain contains every [[transaction]] ever executed in the currency. With this information, one can find out how much value belonged to each [[address]] a ...s transactions [[Irreversible Transactions|irreversible]]. The block chain is the main innovation of Bitcoin.
    5 KB (853 words) - 05:39, 30 January 2024
  • ...ase is the special first transaction in the block). The counter parameter is small at 32-bits so each time it wraps the extraNonce field must be increme The basics of the hashcash algorithm are quite easy to understand and it is described in more detail [[hashcash|here]].
    6 KB (947 words) - 17:55, 20 February 2021
  • === What is "difficulty"? === Difficulty is a measure of how difficult it is to find a hash below a given target.
    9 KB (1,351 words) - 15:07, 30 December 2023
  • * Your additional information ("from", "message", etc.) is exchanged with the server. * Your client sends coins to this public key.
    1 KB (191 words) - 07:55, 23 October 2019
  • This page should probably be deleted. How does it do that? Well, it is a little bit complicated; you've got to understand how bitcoins are created
    11 KB (1,781 words) - 03:09, 12 August 2021
  • This document specifies <tt>pk()</tt>, <tt>pkh()</tt>, and <tt>sh()</tt> output This BIP is licensed under the BSD 2-clause license.
    7 KB (1,317 words) - 23:12, 22 April 2024
  • ...378.0 supported] with Bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt v0.7. Using bitcoin over [[tor]] is also supported. ...mally sent only when a ''new'' block or transaction is being relayed. This is only a list, not the actual data.
    8 KB (1,270 words) - 14:13, 13 June 2018

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