Questions tagged [btcd]
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What are the benefits of using btcd instead of bitcoind?
btcd 1.0 was released October 3, 2013. Why use it instead of bitcoind?
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Can bitcoind and btcd share a datadir?
I've already fully synced the blockchain with btcd, can I point bitcoind at the same datadir and use its contents?
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BTCCTL: How to use the extended RPC commands?
I have a BTCD simnet set up locally on a couple machines. Now, I am looking to use the generatetoaddress RPC in btcctl to fund a couple of different wallets.
However, btcctl throws a "-32601: Method not found" error. In the repository it seems this…
firewithin
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What is the October 2022 bug in LND, what caused it and what would prevent a similar bug in future?
LND users are being asked as of October 2022 to urgently update their Lightning node software due to a bug in LND/btcd (alternative Bitcoin implementation in Go). What is the bug and what caused it? Who will it impact and will they potentially lose…
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Is golang's implementation of Bitcoin core sufficiently relevant to the original?
Is anyone familiar with golang's implementation of Bitcoin core. Is it relevant enough? I read somewhere that they boast that it is an almost 1 to 1 mirror of the original C++ implementation, but does anyone have experience with this? Is it worth…
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Can I create an ordinals-like transaction using bcoin / btcwallet?
According to
Understanding how ordinals work with the Bitcoin blockchain. What is exactly stored on the blockchain?
you can add data to the unexecuted branch of a taproot input like so:
OP_0
OP_IF
(embedded data comes here)
OP_ENDIF
How would I go…
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Understanding how balances work
So I'm running the btcd node and wallet in simnet. I've generated more than 100 blocks. I've a few accounts on the same wallet. The list of the accounts:
$ btcctl --rpcuser=foo --rpcpass=123456 --simnet --wallet listaccounts
{
"account1": 13.7,
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Ivaylo Ivanov
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btcdeb and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
I create a transaction with OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. The median time is not greater than my date that I set in my witness script, for that reason if I try to send it I receive:
error code: -26
error message:
non-final (code 64)
I'd like to…
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Is it possible, with bitcoin-core or btcd, to manually set the scriptSig field in a coinbase transaction?
I am talking about when using regtest or simnet modes.
For context, it is so that I can create coinbase transactions with reproducible txids.
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Cant send raw transaction from golang with OP_EQUALVERIFY failed
I'm using btcsuite (especially this example) package to listen and send unspent inputs for specific address.
Tx hash: 690059e82dcee13678c45f2c583207d357af254624f5037b4d4d12b39caf74ca
From address: mkdaWH9TeZB79vJsLkAU9vYKgAASkjRtWh
To address:…
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