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Tagged with block mining-pools
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How to pick the block in which a transaction will get mined?
I am developping a bot for a customer with the following goals in mind:
to inscribe a satoshi with the block number that it has been mined in (ordinal inscription) on every block. i think this is ...
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What prevents a faster, better-connected node stealing a miner's block solution?
Some questions already adressed similar issues (preventing fraud in a mining pool, what prevents a pool miner for stealing an entire block) but my question is different from those, if I understand ...
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How is it resolved when two miners find the block at the same time?
I am new in this world and I am trying to understand some simple concept of Blockchain and the propagation of transaction.
Let say that a transaction x is made so from what i understand until now this ...
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When do miners add a new block to blockchain?
I'm a bit new to blockchain and I am trying to understand.
As I understand when a new transaction happens it's added to a mining pool and miners prioritize these transactions (for example by amount of ...
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What unconfirmed transactions in Mempool get into a block? [duplicate]
I have a question regarding picking unconfirmed transactions from the mempool. Let's say, there are 1000 transactions in the mempool. Can I randomly select some transactions, say, transaction a, b, c, ...
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Does bitcoin mining pool hash randomly and separately
When it comes to hashing does each mining entity use total random seed for each of their hashing function or do they have a range like " Im gonna cover from 0 to 500, and you cover from 500 to ...
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What are the benefit of mining an empty block
Something peculiar just happened on the newly mined block number 655534, it contain only the coinbase transaction, nothing else.
I have searched for a similar question but only found this one Why ...
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List of different unknown mining pools
A miner can identify himself when he receive his coinbase transaction, we can view them on website offering block explorer like https://www.blockchain.com/charts/pools
Some of these miners are listed ...
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How do I call getblocktemplate from C#'s bitcoinlib?
How do I call getblocktemplate from the bitcoinlib package for C#?
This call does not work
ICoinService CoinService = new BitcoinService(useTestnet: true);
var blockTemplate = CoinService....
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How does a miner identify himself
There has been a new mining pool appearing after the halving called Lubian.com cf https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2020/05/new-bitcoin-mining-pool-comes-out-of-nowhere-already-5th-largest/
How does ...
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How can size of a block be significantly small? [duplicate]
As we all know bitcoin block size should be sth about 1MiB. (Some blocks about 2MB). And this is because miners put all transactions to the block every 10 minutes.
So what happens technically that ...
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Can a miner give themselves less than the maximum block subsidy if they wish to do so?
The current maximum block subsidy is 12.5 bitcoin. A mined block recently got rejected from full nodes after a miner tried to post the block subsidy as 13.26 bitcoin. But what about in the other ...
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mining: losers get nothing?
if the winning miner takes the 12BTC+fees, unless you own the biggest mining operation out there, or are not a member of the biggest pool, why bother mining, if there is no prize for second place? ...
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If the top 6 mining pools started mining empty blocks, what would happen?
I read that it was possible to mine empty blocks, so that miners can still earn when there are no transactions in the network.
What would happen if the top mining pools started mining empty blocks ...
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How do Bitcoin mining pools send their miner's their share of the block reward
In most bitcoin mining pools, miners of a pool are sent their portion of a block reward that the pool collectively mines, every 30 minutes or 1 hour.
How exactly does a mining pool tell the Bitcoin ...
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