Questions tagged [green-address]
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What are Green Addresses?
What are Green Addresses? Is it true that they can solve the "confirmation delay" problem, and how does that work? Are there any drawbacks?
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What's the best way for a website to detect payments from green addresses?
Does any proven third party code exist for this?
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To be more specific, what I haven't been able to find out is how to get the sender's bitcoin address when receiving a transaction. As far as I know, bitcoind doesn't have a command that shows…
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How can I reclaim my Bitcoin Cash from my Greenaddress wallet?
I'm new to cryptocurrency in general, and I'm still learning.
Let's say someone moves BTC to a multi-signature wallet with a trusted provider, i.e. Greenaddress, before the split from an exchange.
This now does not provide him with Bitcoin Cash…
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How to implement a green address in Bitcoind?
There are a few websites that use green addresses, but how can one go about implementing it using the standard Bitcoin API?
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What if you wanted to decrease anonymity?
My idea is to be able to build "credit" for an individual. Lenders of BTC could just use a service to check the "credit score" of a certain address of a borrower. The borrower would have to spend a year(s) using one address like a checking account,…
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Double spending from "green addresses" & mitigation
Suppose a user pays for a service (service1) using a "green address" (0 confirmations required) and service1 needs to immediately respend it using it's own green address
How many blocks should the service wait before respending that money to a…
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Understanding GreenAddress nLocktime/recovery transactions
What I understand is that Greenaddress locks a recovery transaction to be spend 90 days in the future. Whats the advantage in doing this?
Why not creating a recovery transaction without nLocktime?
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Does the public key associated with an address become part of the public record after it has been used to spend?
Since bitcoin addresses are hashes of public keys and not public keys as such, if one wanted to craft a message that could be decrypted by the generator of an address, that can't be done just with an address. But after the generator of an address…
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What does "Green address verification" mean in the context of transaction validation?
I am only new to Bitcoin and I would like to know what a "Green address verification" is. I have an Electrum wallet ver 3.3.6 and I think the term is being used in the context of faster transactions but I am not sure. Any info would be appreciated.
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Blockstream Green Wallet Security
I am trying to understand how secure the green wallet is. I thought of a few scenarios where my funds might be in danger:
If GreenAddress service becomes unavailable, they have a nlocktime transaction that allows me to recover the funds after 90…
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Problem with Greenaddress 2of2 Recovery
I'm encountering an unforeseen problem with 2o2 Recovery procedure.
I followed all the instruction at https://github.com/greenaddress/garecovery, I've correctly installed Ubuntu for Windows, I've correctly run through all the steps until:
$…
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Login Problems with Greenaddress
I need help desperately! I am trying to get to BTC that is locked in a greenaddress wallet. I can log into the view only. When I put in the mneumonic & password, the system runs through decryption to 100 percent and then it bombs out and says…
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Is there a way to retrieve my LTC that did not go into my wallet?
Last night I tried to send LTC from my Binance account to my desktop wallet. I found out later that my wallet doesn't accept LTC so the transfer is lost. Is there any way I can retrieve it? I have the transaction ID and Blockcypher ledger with all…
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How to change the displayed denomination in GreenBits Android wallet?
I just installed GreenBits, the native Java wallet from GreenAddress.it, on my Android device and transferred 0.1 BTC to the wallet. I like it so far.
However, it displays my balance as 100,000 bits. That's cool, but I would like to stick to a more…
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How does the GreenAddress refill (relock) work when its nLockTime expires?
Ok, I understand that GreenAddress wallet uses a nLockTime transaction to put the funds in a 2of2 wallet, to give the user the peace of mind that, in the case their server disappears, they can still have access to the funds.
Now I'm interested to…
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