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Generate BTC legacy address – Setup Electrum wallet to legacy address

coinguides — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:23:51 +0000

“Can’t withdraw using bech32?” The year is 2022 and there are still some exchanges and Bitcoin services that refuse to accept Bech32 addresses, Bitcoin address that starts with bc1. Recently one of our user said that they were trying to withdraw BTC from an exchange but can’t withdraw to their address. They were never able …

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Bitcoin Core – Warning: unknown new rules activated (versionbit X)

coinguides — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:59:25 +0000

Opening your Bitcoin core wallet after a long time? Then most probably you’ll see this warning message in your wallet: “Warning: unknown new rules activated” or “Unknown block versions being mined!”. Recently one of our users asked us what this warning is all about? After a month or so they’ve opened their Bitcoin core wallet …

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Bitcoin core wallet RPC console commands – Bitcoin-qt client API call lists

coinguides — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:48:12 +0000

In this article we’ll share some of the basic commands that you can use to interact with your Bitcoin core RPC console. Bitcoin core QT client is the original Bitcoin wallet and a full node that has features most other Bitcoin wallets don’t have. It builds the backbone of the network. It offers full validation …

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Are the Bitcoin public addresses and private keys case-sensitive?

coinguides — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:24:04 +0000

When sending Bitcoin beginners often possess several questions in their mind. One of the most common question asked by newbies on forums is; are the Bitcoin addresses case-sensitive? Also when backing up or while printing the keys user again have the same question; are the private keys case sensitive? The simple and straightforward answer is …

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What is Bitcoin address, why is it important & how to get a BTC address?

coinguides — Fri, 17 May 2019 14:45:21 +0000

Note: Bitcoin address and BTC address both refer to the same thing. BTC is just a ticker symbol of Bitcoin. There is also another symbol called XBT which also refers to Bitcoin. Here you can learn about ticker symbol and the difference between XBT and BTC. It’s been more than a decade since Bitcoin was …

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What is Bitcoin Reorg? Is it really possible to reorg Bitcoin blockchain?

coinguides — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:49:27 +0000

Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange has recently suffered a large scale security breach which resulted in a loss of 7000 Bitcoin. At current price its around 43 Million USD. Not sure whether if it is really got hacked or not; which is another story. But anyways Binance said that none of the users are affected …

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Coinomi desktop wallet review & beginners guide to wallet setup / usage

coinguides — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 13:15:23 +0000

We’ve seen many users particularly beginners storing their cryptocurrencies on an exchange platform. Not just for trading but they do hold a large amount of their crypto assets for a long period of time. It is mainly because exchanges offers an easy way of storing, managing and exchanging multiple cryptocurrencies. Once you have an exchange …

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What does -rescan, -reindex command do & How to rescan / reindex wallet?

coinguides — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:12:05 +0000

Core wallet is quite sensitive and two commands which is used to fix a large number of wallet related issues are - rescan and -reindex. Are you getting any error when starting your core wallet? Or is your local blockchain database broken / corrupt? This can occur when copying blockchain from one computer to another, …

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Lyra2REv2 Algorithm – List of Coins & Lyra2v2 Miners for NVIDIA / AMD

coinguides — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:33:50 +0000

With the rise of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) mining; standard hardware’s like CPUs and GPUs are being pushed out of the game. Most cryptocurrencies that claims to have ASIC resistant algorithm are not actually resistance to ASIC. They say this because there are no ASICs or FPGAs developed …

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What is Bitcoin Mempool? Memory pool size, fees & transactions explained

coinguides — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:34:55 +0000

Bitcoin, Blockchain and decentralized technology is revolutionary. While Bitcoin has numerous advantages over traditional currency it is quite complex to comprehend for a normal user. If you are new then before investing it is advised that you have some basic understanding of how Bitcoin and Blockchains work. It will really make things easier. How often …

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