Protection against malware attacks
Does bitcoin or Blockchain protect against malware attacks that install a trojan to steal data from a device, on which bitcoin application is installed? Cause a trojan can steal the user’s private key,…
Tag: blockchain
How to get the first block of bitcoin?
I put together a small fork, and I want to extract the first block of bitcoin. At the moment I can’t, and can’t understand why, maybe I forgot something to disable or change. Here is a link to the …
Bitcoin-qt taking forever to acquire the blockchain
I thought that this was the old days when it took forever for bitcoin core to acquire the bootstrap but it looks like it’s still the case. I basically ran the program for 2 hours and I’m still under …
Transaction fees when a block chain is discarded
I’m a bit new to the bitcoin system, so I apologize if this is a “noob” question. A user attempts to take all the unverified transactions it knows about and aggregate them in a chain block. The same …
How can I tell if someone is trying to hack port 8333?
I am experimenting with leaving a public replica of the Bitcoin chain on the internet. In doing so I’m actively monitoring the debug output so I can get a sense of what is happening with the inbound …
Where can I see the average transaction fee payed in the last 100 blocks?
Is there a site that shows what’s the average transaction fee payed in the last X blocks? Or just raw data about this? I checked BlockExplorer and Sytes and they don’t seem to show this information.
How are transactions in discarded forks merged back into the blockchain?
It sounds like transactions in discarded blocks are propagated back to the network to be included in the next block to be generated, is that the case? If so, is that triggered in the client when it …
Bitcoin usage charts
There is a lot of data out there about BTC prices, but are there any simple charts which show how much is Bitcoin really used? Something like number of Bitcoin transactions per day/week, or daily …
What incentive is there for a miner to not include a bad transaction?
‘A’ has got 1BTC legitimately. He sends out a transaction to transfer that one bitcoin to ‘B’ with a 1BTC transaction fee added on. (i.e. a bad request.) ‘C’ is a miner who cares nothing for …
Is there an easy way to search all the transactions?
Is than an easy way to search the list of all bitcoin transactions? For example to find all the bitcoins sent to or from an address?