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On the website whoxy, which has historical data of "who is" of domain names, apparently the two websites bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org were both registered on Aug 18, 2008 (before the white ...
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What's the largest OP_RETURN payload ever created? In terms of pushed bytes after the OP_RETURN, not in terms of total transaction size, and not in terms of amount "burnt". Also just the ...
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The question seems anecdotal but it has an importance when reading the old key.MakeNewKey() source code : At that time, block rewards of 50 BTC were sent to a newly generated pubkey at each blocks. ...
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In pre-taproot scripts, the maximum number of non-push opcodes is 201 (defined by the constant MAX_OPS_PER_SCRIPT). Is this a result of an off-by-one error where the originally intended value was 200?
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Is there a claim for the earliest multi-sender transaction? Maybe Satoshi and Hal tested it?
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I am studying crypto-assets and wanted to know if there is a list of fiat currencies that could be exchanged for Bitcoin before its bankruptcy. Does anyone have any sources on this topic? Thank you in ...
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There's a thing called "Bitcoin Puzzles" where someone (anonymous) has placed relatively large amounts of bitcoin under private keys and publicly advertised that those keys are mostly-all-...
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From BIP0342: The opcode 186 (0xba) is named as OP_CHECKSIGADD. What did 0xba do prior to this?
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So I'm doing some research into this Bitcoin code that apparently pre-dates the first release of Bitcoin v0.01 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.0 There's a lot of differences in this ...
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What Satoshi Nakomoto quotes are there in relation to: forks of Bitcoin? forks in general? altcoin/similar projects? Here I mean forks that form distinct new coins/ecosystems, not in relation to ...
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We have an extinct chaintip with a single stale block something like once per month. But if I remember right, we haven’t had a multiblock reorg (two competing chaintips with at least two blocks depth) ...
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Are binaries for versions of Bitcoin Core (previously called just "Bitcoin") before 0.8.6 available from any reputable source? Prior releases of Bitcoin Core were made to SourceForge, but ...
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What are the last common blocks of Bitcoin and its most popular hard forks like Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond etc.?
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What is the reason why OP_MUL and OP_DIV operators were removed from Bitcoin? Is this because someone could maliciously create a script that multiplies large numbers and thus blows the stack, or is ...
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Nowadays there are DNS seeds and hardcoded IP addresses, but back in the day when Satoshi released Bitcoin v0.1, how did new nodes connect to the rest of the network? My initial thought was that the ...
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