Questions tagged [address]

Tells a user how to pay a recipient. Bitcoin addresses are strings consisting of numbers and letters that begin with '1', '3', or 'bc1'. Addresses encode the recipient's output script that includes either a public key or a hash of a public key or script. Bitcoin addresses should not be confused with mailing addresses or IP addresses.

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Why distinguish between receiving address and change address

I see receiving address and change address in wallet client and bip44. Why distinguish between receiving address and change address? What will be the problem if I use only change address chain for ...
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How do i trade my bitcoin with high chances of profit [closed]

I have been wanting to invest my funds in a very long time but i always have it difficult to do because i am always scared of losing my funds to bitcoin and now that i realize the speedy increment of ...
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My multibit core synchronization is stuck Whats the reason [duplicate]

For the past six days since I downloaded the multibit core, I wanted to recover my wallet I still have my recovery phrase and password, and open the multibit core and the wallet was synchronization ...
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The One Thing That’s Stopping Me From Accessing My Crypto Wallet (Hint: It’s Not the Seed Phrase)

Requirement: Recover crypto What I possess: I have a 12 word seed phrase, (Though I am not exactly sure of the organization that generated it). I have the public address through which (blockchain.com ...
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How Wallet Mobile Softwares deal with Wallet Balance and Transaction history?

I'm trying to build a mobile software Wallet made in Flutter with a Bitcoin Core Full node that communicates with a Node.js backend. The problem I can't find the answer to is: how can wallet ...
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Calculating addresses from Bitcoin transaction data

What would be the easiest way to retrieve addresses that are used in specific transaction? For instance, if you look at following transaction which is retrieved by getblock of JSON RPC with argument ...
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What are the OP codes associated with bc1?

As the title says I'm trying to extract bc1 addresses by using opcodes I've found from reading about bitcoin online. However, I cannot actually find the opcodes associated with bc1. The segwit outputs ...
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Why do many of the early bitcoin addresses receive small transactions many years later? [duplicate]

For example... https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1NHHWnZKTetjZZfAbVjTS9EHQafdH6xn8a ...receives a block reward of 50 BTC in 2009 and then transactions in 2019, 2020, 2021 for tiny ...
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Transaction Wallet-Address extraction

When taking a look at the blk.dat files I am confused about how I would go about getting sender(s) and receiver(s). It is clear to me that if I have multiple inputs / outputs that there might be ...
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Retrieving bitcoin address of the receiver of a transaction with bitcoinrpc

I'm trying to write a simple python implementation using bitcoinrpc to extract the address receiving a transaction but... I'm not sure why certain fields are only accessible inconsistently. E.g. tx['...
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Cant remember what wallet i had electrum mycelium core i remember the address but forgot if it was on a exchange or not is there a way to find out [duplicate]

I have the address I no there is wallet explorer block explorer but I put the address in no luck
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Bitcoin Core Node On Chain Data Addresses Over one Bitcoin

I'm currently running a Bitcoin Core full node on my raspberry pi. I have set the config file to txindex=1 and I want to query the bitcoin network to find out how many addresses hold more than 1 ...
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Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix?

I noticed that signet and testnet both use tb1 addresses. Why doesn't signet use a unique prefix that distinguishes it from testnet?
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What is the standard or best practice for bitcoin wallet address labeling, if any?

Transferring wallet address labels from different wallets is non-trivial today, as there is no standard for this metadata it seems. Could address labelling be included in wallet config files at ...
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how to hash a bitcoin address for transactions?

can someone tell me how bitcoin hash a btc address? when you try to hash it on this website, you will get the same result as down below Bitcoin Address : 1JKRgG4F7k1b7PbAhQ7heEuV5aTJDpK9TS Result (...

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