Questions tagged [specification]
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How is a Ripple address constructed?
How is a Ripple address constructed? Is it similar to how a Bitcoin address works albeit with a different net byte, or are there some more differences?
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Is there a precise open specification for the peercoin protocol?
I searched for an open specification of the peercoin protocol (more precise than the white paper) and I couldn't find one. Is it possible to find something similar to the bitcoin protocol specification available on bitcoin wiki but for peercoin ?
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Which version of the JSON-RPC protocol does Bitcoin use?
I would like to get some clarification on which version of the JSON-RPC protocol does Bitcoin use? 1.0 or 2.0?
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Are transaction ids always the same length?
Do all bitcoin transaction ids (hashes) have the same length?
I guess it's defined somewhere here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification but still I couldn't find it.
Doug Peters
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where is the specification for bitcoin block-chain mining?
1.) Who wrote the rule book and where is it stored?
2.) Is it stored in a block chain?
3.) Who said bitcoin could hard-fork?
4.) What if some bitcoin holders don't want a hard fork?
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Who can change the code governing how much of BTC is released?
I understand that BTC's will be continually released by the year 2040, when it will reach 21M coins. Actual numbers don't really matter, but I'm interested in who has the power to change this rule. Is this an individual, a "github community"?
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What exactly does censorship resistance mean?
What features are needed for censorship resistant blockchain? In what situation can you say it's not censorship resistant?
Satoshi Nakanishi
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Bitcoin script stack numbers format
On bitcoin wiki site I cant found this specification:
*The stacks hold byte vectors. When used as numbers, byte vectors are interpreted as little-endian variable-length integers with the most significant bit determining the sign of the integer. Thus…
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Best place to read about the algorithms and protocols underlying bitcoin?
I haven't been able to find a whitepaper or technical spec detailing the bitcoin algorithms and protocols. Google is flooded with too much hand-wavy nonsense. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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My bitcoint-qt client is crashing due to insufficient file descriptors repeatedly even after I set the ulimits to 65535
What are the exact resource requirements for a bitcoin-qt client.
this is important and hard to find information.
In virtualization world those things need to be understood. :)
I am running a KDE 18.04 Vbox on a mounted 1TB SSD share with 4GB Ram 4…
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How does bitcoind find p2p hosts?
I read the bitcoin references but I can't find a description regarding how bitcoin clients find other host in the p2p network.
Would you please tell me?
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Continuation question about nonce randomness and verification of the randomness by signing parties
Original: Can a signer recover their own signature's nonce `k`?
Note that under normal circumstances it is infeasible to randomly generate the same nonce, so either a non-random nonce has to have been used in the first place, or the nonce was shared…
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coin specifications values in source code
I am new to Bitcoins.
I wanted to know the specifications of coins inside source code. Can any one tell me,
* What are those functions and variable which are responsible to get and
set the coin specifications values?
Lets say, Coin 'litecoin'…
Dipendra Singh
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