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Last week I noticed when moving btc from one address to another, my background process was sending btc frequently without checking confirmation (latestBlockHeight - txBlockHeight + 1). I understand that if I receive btc from someone I need to make sure there are at least 3-6 confirmation to mitigate risks of someone spending that coin. Is there any risk not waiting for confir...


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Bitcoin consensus rules appear to avoid any notion of approximation or tolerance. Amounts difficulty targets hashes and script evaluation are all defined using bounded integers with explicit overflow and truncation behavior. Even values described as bitstrings are integers modulo fixed powers of two.

Is this purely an implementation choice or is Bitcoin consensus funda...


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i don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but i haven't found a proper one to do so, so here we go :

I wanna get only the LAST OHLCV candle from multiple markets with the cryptocompare api using only one request. Is that possible ?

For example : I can get multiple coin prices using only one request by doing this :


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After sending a raw transaction (SendRawTransaction (raw_tx, 100000)) and after local broadcasting, the transaction does not show up on platforms such as mempool.space. What might be the reason?


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I have a channel with someone who only has IPv4. I only have IPv6. How can I redirect the port in my LND to accept IPv4?


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