Here's a list of projects that you can use to create your own lightning node. Every part of this stack is completely open source so you can customize it however you want.
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I recommend looking at established Lightning node projects such as RaspiBolt, RaspiBlitz, and Umbrel. |
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I probably phrased it incorrectly but I think you answered it. I meant if the bitcoin was sent to a public address that was just not active yet.
It seems it is unlikely but not imposible to create a wallet and find some bitcoin.
An address is basically a number (plus some other stuff), so all addresses "exist". Addresses are not "activated". You can send bitcoins to any valid address, but only someone with its private key can spend those bitcoins. The number 0 has this address - 1111111111111111111114oLvT2. Over 300 BTC have been sent to it (mostly by accident). But until someone discovers its private key, those bitcoins can never be spent. It is extremely unlikely that its private key will ever be found. The inability to find the private key for an address is a foundation of Bitcoin's security. Also, a quick clarification of terms: - Address: Bitcoins are sent to an address. An address is derived from its public key. It is not a public key or a wallet.
- Private Key: Used to control the bitcoins at an address. A private key is not a password or a seed.
- Public Key: A public key is used in a transaction and is rarely used directly by a person. A public key is derived from its private key. It is not an address.
- Wallet: A wallet contains and manages private keys and their associated addresses. A wallet is not an address. A wallet typically uses a seed phrase to generate all of its private keys.
- Seed/Recovery Phrase: Used by a wallet to generate private keys and their associated addresses. A seed phrase is not a passphrase or a private key. A seed phrase is also known as a recovery phrase because all of a wallet's private keys and associated addresses are derived from its seed phrase.
- Passphrase/password: A passphrase is used to encrypt a wallet, private key, or seed. A passphrase is not a private key or a seed phrase. However, sometimes a wallet will add an extra word to the seed phrase to be used as a passphrase.
Here are sets of terms that are frequently confused with each other: - Public key <==> Address
- Address <==> Wallet
- Private key <==> Seed Phrase <==> Passphrase
Terms that should be avoided because they are ambiguous or probably being used incorrectly: - Wallet address: A wallet typically does not have a single address associated with it.
- Public address: Use of this term typically indicates a confusion between the terms "address" and "public key". All addresses are public.
- Public Key: Typically this term is mistakenly used in place of "address".
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Anyways, I think it's time to create another thread to continue the discussion about MetaMask.
Yes, please. This has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin. |
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For example such question. If you open any bitcoin wallet in a text editor, there is always the word name followed by the wallet address.
Usually, in 99% of cases, the syntax is such that after the word name there is a symbol "
for example
name"1GGkBTEvbQV8CjztXFAfNZfAUS39uzQ3oL
but it happens that after the word name I see symbol !
name!1quZQ76sp476b8rncpzHtLAHUo3fRwvdN
If I edit the file and instead of the ! replace to this symbol "
then the wallet file stops opening in the program and shows this error
So I have a question, can such a symbol !
be present inside the wallet file or is this symbol can be sign of the fake wallet?
The wallet.dat file is a binary file. It is not intended to be viewed with a text editor. The " that you are referring to is probably data (0x22) and not a delimiter. In fact, it looks like the value simply indicates the length of the field that follows: 34 bytes for " (0x22) and 33 bytes for ! (0x21). |
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Maybe I don't understand about these aspects but I say what I see. In my country its impossible to use cryptocurrency as a payment system anonymously, because if you want to cash out ...
 The point is that when cryptocurrency is used as a payment system then you never need to cash out. |
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The problem with using the CDS price to measure credit worthiness is that it is a market-based metric. It is much like using a stock market index to rate a country's economy. |
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We often hear about regulations and restrictions of cryptocurrencies but we don't know exactly the legal grounds of its restrictions,May it be unconstitutional? Property right is our constitutional right and noone can restrict it without legitimate reason.
Which country are you talking about? In the U.S., your assertions are on shaky ground. The property rights protections in the U.S. constitution are very limited. The Constitution protects property rights through the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ Due Process Clauses and, more directly, through the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause: “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”
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I am new to bitcoin. I want to buy goods online with bitcoin. I am with CoinCorner and Electrum. My GBP wallet contains £70 and my BTC contains 0.0010969 bitcoin which is £30. How do I transfer money from the GBP wallet to the BTC wallet so I can use it?
If by "transfer" you mean "convert GBP to BTC", then you go to the "Buy & Sell" page. |
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As @nullama reported, the bitcoins were sent to bc1q5dwn...j7z5. Now, the question is whether or not that is the address in Electrum. It is not clear from your posts. Does Electrum have bc1q5dwn...j7z5 or does it have bc1q5dqp...0fu7? If bc1q5dwn...j7z5 is the correct address, then the problem might simply be that Electrum is having connection problems that are preventing it from updating. |
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doesnt really seem fair right.
afghanistan has to work 35x more hours than someone in california
people in idaho have to work twice as much as californians to get bitcoin
It may not be fair, but there will always be rich people and there will always be poor people. Regardless, everything is more expensive in places where people are poorer. You can't change that by controlling the price of a bitcoin. what if bitcoin was based on.. say a cost of living index..
EG "Bread Loaf Value" imagine right now bitcoin exchange rate was 16,000 bread loaves
EG "Minimum Wage Hours" imagine right now bitcoin exchange rate was 3,500 minimum wage hours no matter location
You are suggesting that the value of a bitcoin be pegged to bread loaves or minimum wage hours. That requires you to trust someone to maintain the peg, and even if you do trust someone, it is not possible because there are a finite number of bitcoins. |
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one thing they do do is allow for a large amount of purchase tracking.
There is no reason somebody couldn't implement something like that when paying with Bitcoin. For example, your wallet could query the company's database using the bitcoin address or LN invoice. My Amazon card gives me 5% back at Amazon. BoA has a card that gives 3% back on online purchases. Discover has the 5% back on different things every quarter and so on.
Coinbase has their debit card with 4% rewards (not in BTC but some alt) but beyond that there is not much.
Paying with BTC direct we get none of that.
I use BTC a lot, but there are also many many times when I could that I use a card instead due to the benefits the card offers.
Those rewards are not free money. They are paid by the merchants who must then increase the prices that you pay. Many merchants give discounts for cash payments (except where CC companies convinced governments to make that illegal). Many merchants also give discounts when paying with Bitcoin. BTC does offer some level of privacy
But giving that up, so banks / card cards can send us directed offers, will save you some real money over time. ...
But if a BTC debit card they are came out that would give you good benefits if you let them do a lot more invasive tracking, would you do it?[/b]
Again, it is not free money. The banks, credit companies, and merchants that track you are not being generous. They are trying to suck more money out of you. |
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Hypothetically if the USA pegged the US dollar to Bitcoin how would economic growth continue. I am a huge Bitcoin proponent but looking at it from this lens puzzles me. Restricting the printing press would, in my opinion, slow economic growth significantly. What would the world look like after this? Are there opposing viewpoints?
The economy grows through productivity. The effect of money on the economy is just an illusion. The U.S. government pumped trillions of dollars into the economy over the last couple of years and the economy grew at a rapid pace, but now with inflation kicking in we are seeing that those gains were not real. Real wages (wages after accounting for inflation) are now falling. My question for you is, why do you think that money printing is necessary for economic growth? The world experienced tremendous economic growth before fiat money was invented. Hypothetically if the USA pegged the US dollar to Bitcoin how would economic growth continue.
I wonder for how long could they - hypothetically - keep an inflationary coin (value decreasing over time) pegged to a coin with finite supply (value cannot decrease over time). They simply devalue the dollar, as was done when there was a gold standard. |
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Bit Club Network is a Ponzi scheme. The organizers have been indicted. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/bitclub...I was told in order to release those balances I had to deposit 45% of the value of the balance.
I was not going to take that risk, and I did not have that kind of funds anyway.
That is a classic scam. Do not send them any money. You will never get any money back from them no matter what they say. |
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Hi i have lost btc worth 6000 USD to a scammer
i just want to recovery the same without paying UPFRONT payment bcos i lost again 300 USD who posted as recovery agent recently
kindly let me know any Bitcoin Recovery FIRM or Agent who does not ask for UPFRONT Payment and get paid post recocvery of funds to my wallet
but the agent or firm should be TRUSTED One
If you have lost btc to a scammer, then there is no recovery (unless you can report the scammer to law enforcement and they can force the scammer to return it). There are no recovery firms that can get your btc back from a scammer. Anyone who says they can is a scammer. |
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You absolutely heard about the third word war cause of invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
I think the chances of a large-scale war are low. People won't support it. On the other hand, I don't see an end to small-scale war for a long time. Destruction, invasion, and the domination of other countries are an integral a part of the U.S. foreign policy. |
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Bitcoin has the same acronym as the Broward Transition Center, the concentration camp (I mean, the "detention center") where I was starved half to death for over 8 months in 2012, prior to my deportation from the US.
That got me thinking: what are the odds?
Your question is slightly ambiguous. I'll try to answer the one I think you are asking. There are 26 3, or 17576, possible combinations of 3 letters. Since there is only one way to make BTC, the probability of a random 3-letter acronym being BTC are 1/ 17576, or 0.0000568958. The probability of a particular camp not having the BTC acronym is 1 - 1/ 17576, or or 0.9999431042. According to this list, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_sites_in_the_United_States, there were 363 camps in 2007-2009. Let's assume that each has a 3-letter acronym (they don't). The probability of none of them having the BTC acronym is 0.9999431042 363, or 0.979558. The probability of at least one of them having the acronym BTC is 1 - 0.979558, or 2.0442% |
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Now we can see people using NFT for tax evasion and money laundry.
We are about to see a lot of new laws and regulations related to bitcoin, cryptocurrency and NFT.
If they were caught under the current laws and regulations, what is the need for more? |
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I don't get it. If the logo is in the public domain, then how can its use be restricted?
They used exact same Bitcoin logo, changed color with tilt, and they said it's their own unique logo design  This would be like if I use any public domain logo, ... Yes, and I believe there is nothing wrong with that because it is not a trademark and it is public domain. let's take for example well know Olympic rings logo by Pierre de Coubertin, change color, tilt it and call it my own unique creation.
That's a bad example because the olympic logo is a trademark, and the bitcoin logo is not. Furthermore, the bitcoin logo has been in use for many years without any attempts by trademark holders to stop its use. A court would probably find that the bitcoin logo is generic because of its widespread use and cannot be used as a trademark. |
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Don't bother. It is not worth watching the video to find the 5 secs of some random person associating Bitcoin with white supremacists.
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To clarify, use of the original "right tilted", "orange" #Bitcoin #BTC logo continues unhindered 'as-is' in the public domain."
I don't get it. If the logo is in the public domain, then how can its use be restricted? I maintain Threshold of Originality over the current Bitcoin BTC logo / design concept, as a proven originator of the logo design. I can therefore apply (and legally enforce) Trademarks in jurisdictions. Correct me if I am wrong, but you state that the logo is public domain, which is equivalent to saying that there is no copyright. Copyrights and trademarks are different things. Unlike a copyright, a trademark must be registered. If you have registered a trademark, then I guess you can sue for infringement. Have you registered the logo as a trademark?I was wrong about trademarks, here is what Justia says about unregistered trademarks in the U.S.A.: If you do not register your trademark, you will have legal rights only within the geographic areas where you operate. This means you may be able to stop a subsequent user of the mark ... from using the mark in your geographic area only. You can claim trademark rights in your unregistered trademark as long as it is distinctive and identifies or distinguishes your products or services.
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