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Questions tagged [receiving]

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What happens when someone sends bitcoin to my wallet?

I didn't get it. Should my wallet be online? What if it becomes corrupted before I make a backup? Can I use my backup wallet that was backed up few days ago?
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What is the safest method managing a large number of receiving Bitcoin addresses?

Say I want to run a big project, where users can continually request new addresses to deposit Bitcoins in their online account. I suppose I will have to pre-generate thousands of Bitcoin key-pairs and import them into a running instance of bitcoind…
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Using QR codes for bitcoin giveaway

Suppose I wanted to have a bitcoin treasure hunt, where QR codes were used. The first person who scanned a given QR code should receive some preset amount of bitcoins. Is this possible? (Preferably with as little need for knowledge on the part of…
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How to get notification on bitcoin receive with bitcoin core

How can I get Bitcoin receive notifications with Bitcoin Core. I have tried the walletnotify and blocknotify options. walletnotify is fired two times when I send or receive bitcoins. And with blocknotify I have to perform below task to detect which…
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How can a transaction have more than one recipient address?

I see a lot of transactions which have more than one recipient address. Examples: Transaction 1 Transaction 2 Edit #1: I just saw a tag call multi-sig-transactions. It is obviously what I am asking for. I did not see in the clients before. How…
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How long does it take to receive bitcoins?

I bought 1.25 BTC but after 2 days I see nothing. What is wrong? This is the transaction. Also, I went to freebitcoins.appspot.com, since they claim thay they give for free 0.005 bitcoins per visitor. I did everything correct and the site said that…
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Custom receive payments method?

So it's a known problem that blockchain.info's api only allows a gap of 20 unpaid addresses, which sucks and makes their api almost completely worthless. But I was thinking how could I make my own receive payments method with their other not so…
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How to handle a ridiculous amount of receiving addresses?

By ridiculous I mean something absolutely absurd. 1 million+ addresses. Like say if Amazon had started to accept payments, how could they possibly keep up? Bitcoind probably can't keep up? How would I go about solving this? How does SatoshiDice or…
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Sending and receiving address

What's the difference between sending and receiving address? I mean, if for mistake I asked to send a payment to my sending address, have I lost my bitcoin? TX
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How do I receive Bitcoins from my clients who owe me money?

How do I receive Bitcoins from my clients who owe me money? I do not have a web site. Currently I send my clients an invoice. They discharge the invoice by sending me a check drawn on their bank checking account. Do I have to send them a Bitcoin…
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Sending and Receiving Mechanics

I'm new to Bitcoin and am considering allowing people to pay for my software with them. Before I continue I would like to clarify some things. My googling did not get me the answers I was after. I understand that you can create new addresses for…
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Where are the receiving and sending address descriptions stored?

Are the sending and receiving address descriptions stored in the wallet file, or as some other file managed by the Bitcoin client app? If I move or copy my wallet to a new installation of the Bitcoin client, will I still have my descriptions for my…
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Can the sender of a MtGox code see which account the code is redeemed to?

In other words, if I receive a MtGox code and redeem it to my account, can the person who gave me the bitcoins, via the code, see that my account was the account that redeemed it?
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How does one checks which customer made a payment?

One question I'm not able to properly answer when asked is How exactly can the blockchain verify the identity of the user without a centralized trusted party such as VeriSign? I know this is done in a decentralized way and the ECDSA algorithm…
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How to link a bitcoin address to a wallet address?

BitGo has a feature where you can have multiple addresses under a wallet. The wallet also has its own address. Now suppose I have two addresses under my wallet. This means for any user to send me BTC, I can give one out of any three addresses which…
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