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David A. Harding

Pemberton, NJ, USA

http://dtrt.org

Contributor, Bitcoin.org developer documentation (commits)
Email: dave@dtrt.org / IRC: harding
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What are Channel Factories and how do they work?
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What are the implications of Schnorr signatures?
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What is a thin client?
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How big is the UTXO database?
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Is centralization in the Lightning network inevitable? Why (not)?
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Why does the default miner implementation use pay-to-pubkey?
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15
Is sha-1 used in Bitcoin?
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“HTLCs don't work for micropayments”?
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When to worry about 1-confirmation payments
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How is the target section of a block header calculated?
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How much of BIP 62 (“Dealing with malleability”) has been implemented?
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What is a hash pre-image as it is used for the breach remedy?
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Is it chain of headers rather than a chain of blocks?
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If Bitcoin transactions require ~10 min to clear, how can payments get recognized within seconds?
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Ubuntu Linux — How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?
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Are people incentivized with BTC to run nodes?
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Why do you need the *complete* blockchain to mine bitcoins, why not just the last n blocks?
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Is it possible to “unmine” particular coins?
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What if some group of people start sending small transactions from wallet to wallet just to make the blockchain bigger?
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What is preventing negative balance?
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What prevents similar time-warp attacks in Bitcoin as happened to Verge?
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Where are P2SH full redeem scripts stored?
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Are Micropayment channels still subject to malleability after BIP65?
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Does rootstock need segregated witness to work?
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Why doesn't bitcoin place additional constraints on competing block chain forks, other than length of chain? (e.g., time and confirmation count)
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Is there a maximum size of a scriptSig/scriptPubKey?
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Can a Bitcoin block be less than 1mb?
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7
Correct syntax for Bitcoin URI: bitcoin://1xxx-etc or bitcoin:1xxx-etc?
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Bitcoind -walletnotify more than 6 confirmations?
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Why does Bitcoin use separate change addresses?
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