Questions tagged [bip]
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal - a design document providing information to the Bitcoin community, or describing a new feature for Bitcoin or its processes or environment.
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xPriv needed to derive hardened child xPubs?
I am trying to create a java method that gets the xPub associated at the childnumber of the input hardened:
private String getDerivedXPubFromPathAndXPub(Integer childNumber, String xPub) {
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P2tr transaction with musig2 rust
I'm trying to build a p2tr that spends a 2-2 musig aggregated address. My process is as follow:
Create SecretKey, PublicKey pair from each party
Aggregate those 2 public keys
Create and publish a ...
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What is the byte-wise xor operation mentioned in bip 340?
Let t be the byte-wise xor of bytes(d) and hash_BIP0340/aux(a)
Link: bip-0340
Actually, I think it means bitwise xor, not bytewise xor, but for the sake of clarity, I ask: What is the difference ...
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Why does BIP-340 use secp256k1?
If the entire Taproot/Schnorr soft-fork was going to implement an entirely new signing scheme anyway that was completely independent from the previous ECDSA scheme, why did it use secp256k1?
Couldn't ...
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How do miners signal approval for a BIP via nVersion, exactly?
Where, exactly, do these tags for scriptSig and nVersion get entered or modified? I don't see any field to do so on my asic config webpage, nor on my USB miner cgminer.
For example, I have a small USB ...
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Is a BIP required for the removal of SegWit Discount for Inscriptions?
Is a BIP required for the removal of SegWit Discount for Inscriptions?
The rationale of such a change is to standardize the fee structure across all data types included in a block, ensuring that ...
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the switching timing between high-bandwidth mode and low-bandwidth mode in CompactBlockReray
If the Compact Block transmission node is bandwidth-limited, there is a statement in bip152 implemention Note that an 'inv/headers' is sent. Are there specific thresholds or settings for this in the ...
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Should everything be a BIP? [closed]
Once LukeDashJr said (or implied) on Twitter that all Bitcoin ideas, standard candidates and proposals and even stuff tangentially related should be BIPs. He even voiced that the Lightning spec should ...
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why is BIP 39 unanimously discouraged for implementation and what should I do about that
Let's say I come new to the space and I find these three facts:
Everybody advice against hot wallets unless loose change, telling to use cold storage instead.
Every cold storage device seems to be ...
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Import existing address to BIP-32
I would like to know if there is a way to import an existing address (not generated through the BIP-32 protocol and not derived to it) to my BIP-32 master node.
I am using the bitcoinjs-lib library on ...
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Looking for Source of an Old Idea About Subdividing Satoshis
I remember seeing an old idea but unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and now I'm struggling to find the source again. Maybe someone will remember it and be able to point me to the source?
It was ...
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What is this || notation in BIP 341?
SHA256(SHA256(tag) || SHA256(tag) || x)
What is the || notation? Is this the conjunction of the different elements? Bitwise OR? or modulus?
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Does BIP-069 use littleEndian for txid comparison?
BIP-69 writes the following about how inputs should be ordered:
Previous transaction hashes (in reversed byte-order) are to be sorted in ascending order, lexicographically.
But then, in the examples ...
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BIP 32 Root key for connecting wallets
I have a question, a broker Xeroxfx.org asked me to create the BIP 32 RK to connect wallets for a quicker transaction. Is this real, or can he now steal from my wallet?
THX
Phillip
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Why wasn't P2SH-wrapped P2WPK added to any BIP?
Pieter Wuille wrote this:
There is no such thing as P2WPK; the only valid witness v0 programs are P2WPKH (OP_0 + hash160 of pubkey) or P2WSH (OP_0 + sha256 of script).
But I don't understand the ...
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