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I couldn't find any discussion on the forum about this BIP.
I assume that most of you are familiar with the BIP-119 proposal.
I don't think it will win 90% approval of the miners' hash rate.

I don't know if it good or bad for bitcoin a proposal like this, but for sure it will benefit Rubin financially.
According to the suggested Speedy Trial, the neutral votes are counted as 'positive'.
Loosing the fungibility it's not exactly what I envision for bitcoin's future.

I want to know currently who has the rights over the WP. After reading some articles about Craig Wright and removing the Whitepaper from bitcoin.org  it is a bit unclear.
In addition the source code of the bitcoin software is an open source. 
How a man can copyright something which was originally released under the open source MIT License?

Hello guys,

reading this:

The exact amount of time it takes for block generation varies and depends on the difficulty of the hash.

Each cryptocurrency has a different block time—Bitcoin takes around 10 minutes, while Ethereum only takes around 14 seconds

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/block-time-cryptocurrency.asp#:~:text=Each%20cryptocurrency%20has%20a%20different,generated%20by%20the%20hashing%20algorithm).

It is still not clear to me how the time between the blocks is determined and how it can be determined at 10 min?

Here are statistics for the last few blocks:

Code:

723,582	00000000000000000000780705dd3172aa5cb960c5e7a1a796ae6585cab66ae0 2022-02-16 09:16:50	Poolin	899	1,267.60BTC	56,337,000USD	0.04BTC	1,627.17USD	623.583app.units.kb
723,581	0000000000000000000612239d746e3abf06986d3b588e4b0c820a05b359b4ce 2022-02-16 09:12:24	F2Pool	182	309.87BTC	13,771,700USD	0.02BTC	810.02USD	267.991app.units.kb
723,580	00000000000000000006355d665747311467dfbf43d248361570d0807af65989  2022-02-16 09:11:33	Unknown	1258	1,665.97BTC	74,042,200USD	0.05BTC	2,289.57USD	922.846app.units.kb
723,579	000000000000000000096b5fe0bcd5df426700c97441e596284c85beb62c3d0b   2022-02-16 09:05:18	F2Pool	1528	2,258.98BTC	100,398,000USD 0.06BTC	2,691.3USD	1,345.095app.units.kb
723,578	00000000000000000006d410b462e7babc9a1e320edad8e070d454904f0b9280  2022-02-16 08:56:25	SlushPool 75	217.39BTC	9,661,460USD	0.00BTC	129.81USD	36.624app.units.kb
723,577	00000000000000000009be5e51184e3270441cac6113eae7255a5e7b3e3fe5a8  2022-02-16 08:55:51	F2Pool	855	1,176.71BTC	52,297,700USD	0.03BTC	1,183.89USD	421.271app.units.kb

Source: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks

Mining 723578 took less than a minute, there were only 75 transactions totally 217.39 Btc
Mining 723579 took approximately 6 minutes with 1528 transactions and 2258.98 btc

The hash rate is at ATH together with the network difficulty, if it plays a role.
Source:
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/difficulty
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

I looked at several pages with the history of the blocks and could not see one that was close or over 10 minutes.
All are under 10 minutes.
The average total should be well under 10 minutes.


I forgot to add that nowhere in the bitcoin white paper says that the time between the blocks are 10 minutes only if they are generated too fast per hour, the difficulty increases.

A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are
generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year

To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time,
the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of
blocks per hour. If they're generated too fast, the difficulty increases.

source:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Hello friends,

I have the following question:

What is the relation between the seed words and the private key and how can one convert the seed into a private key?
Taking BIP39 as an example.

I read the following:

A simplified explanation of how seed phrases work is that the wallet software has a list of words taken from a dictionary, with each word assigned to a number. The seed phrase can be converted to a number which is used as the seed integer to a deterministic wallet that generates all the key pairs used in the wallet.

This compares well with writing down a raw private key where a single letter being unreadable or incorrect can make the private key useless (depending on the serialization format).

Quote from: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Seed_phrase

A deterministic wallet is a system of deriving keys from a single starting point known as a seed. The seed allows a user to easily back up and restore a wallet without needing any other information and can in some cases allow the creation of public addresses without the knowledge of the private key. Seeds are typically serialized into human-readable words in a seed phrase. The BIP 0032 standard for hierarchical deterministic wallets is used by all good wallets as of 2019.

Quote from: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet

This BIP describes the implementation of a mnemonic code or mnemonic sentence -- a group of easy to remember words -- for the generation of deterministic wallets.
It consists of two parts: generating the mnemonic and converting it into a binary seed. This seed can be later used to generate deterministic wallets using BIP-0032 or similar methods.

Source: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

At first I thought the conversion of the seed into a numeric value will result into a private key, but I seem to be mistaken.
What are the steps to convert a seed to a private key?

Code:

mnemonic seed > binary seed > deterministic wallet > deterministic address > private key ?

I see so many people wearing signatures these days.
How do you state the cryptocurrency income from signature campaigns in your tax return? The tax authorities in Europe want to provide them with a document for the purchase of cryptocurrency, I guess it's the same for USA & Canada with the AML laws.

If I have the backup of the keys from an android bitcoin wallet. How can I get the hash of the backup file (the name is like bitcoin-wallet-keys-XXXX-XX-XX)  with John the ripper?
I have a Dash backup and I think the above procedure will work on the dash wallet too as they are similar, right?

I can make a new backup with password 123 and test all the possible hash variations created with john the ripper and test which one will be correct but I decided to ask first here.
The Internet is silent about this. 

 

I'm surprised to find that there isn't a Technical Altcoin Section.
The main Altcoin Discussion Board is clogged with random meaningless topics, and there's no place for the real questions, why so?

If I have a backup copy of the Android Litecoin wallet and I don't remember the unlock password, is there a way to take out the hash and try crack it?
I learned how to use Hashcat and I already created a wordlist with my possible password variations but how to extract the hash?
The format is Litecoin-Wallet-Keys-XXXX-XX-XX
 

I just learned that Bitcoin Core does not support mnemonic seed.
Which wallets support mnemonic seed except Electrum and are there any differences in the wordlists? I see Electrum has "old" and "new" wordlists.
Can I use the same seed on a different wallets?

As it says in the subject line.
Is there such a wallet that I can install on my computer and import private keys without having to go to various sites.

Importing private keys on a website doesn't seem safe to me at all. There are many cases of stolen wallets.

Hello,
I came here not long ago and this is a great place full and extremely much information, but unfortunately it is quite poorly arranged.
There are a few things I want to share and also ask.

I had difficulty finding the rules of the forum, it turned out that they are not official.
The help menu is pointless, most of the features aren't even mentioned there at all, like Rules, Merit, Trust, feedback etc. You have to look for pinned posts here and there.

I encounter misunderstandings.
If I have a question, I find a topic that does not fully answer my question and I decide to publish my point.
I get a message that the topic is older than xx days and it is better to open a new topic. I open a new topic, people say that there are older topics on which I had to post my question.  In the meantime, I have to wait a few minutes between searches.

People do not read the previous comments. Several people answer the same thing simply by using different words and expressions.

I don't mind the old look of the forum, I even like it, but the text formatting tools are awful.

Don't take this as criticism, rather as wondering how things can be so confusing, this is a 10 year old forum.

Yet another question.
I decided before buying bitcoin to organize their storage properly. I settled on the Electrum solution.
First, it doesn't take up as much space as Bitcoin-qt, it seems the most secure.
It's no point switch to hardware wallets just yet.
Second, I don't want to use BTC for store of value. I prefer to use them for shopping, small transactions as that's the initial point of bitcoin.

I want Electrum to be installed in 2 places at the same time, both will be online. If I change the password of the first installation, what happens to the second one, I couldn't find an answer?

Note: I tried to reply to some old topics but I get a warning not to answer but to open a new topic, so I did.

It's me again, with a strange question.
I keep reading and I'm trying to figure something out.
If I send coins to an exchange and start trading there, as soon as I withdraw the coins they go through another address with a different amount of what I initially entered, I can also withdraw different amounts several times. Isn't this the same as passing coins through a mixer?
I read that some exchanges do not require KYC below a certain amount.

Hello, I want to buy bitcoin, how can I be sure that they were not used for any shady business?  If I buy directly from a person, what is the chance that I will have problems later?  Do I only have to buy from exchanges?
Please, forgive my ignorance.