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Why Is Secp256k1 Curve So Famous?

A Choice In The Fundamental Basics of Bitcoin Crypto-currency, or mainly Bitcoin, has become a household name. For the right reasons, obviously. It’s an aim and dream of taking the world from a centralized authority towards the freedom of decentralization. However, this freedom comes at great complexities and costs of energy (in form of electricity),…Continue readingWhy Is Secp256k1 Curve So Famous?

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Gotcha, Darkside: How I Traced The Stolen Bitcoins

No, the FBI did not hack bitcoinContinue readingGotcha, Darkside: How I Traced The Stolen Bitcoins

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How the disposable private keys are being shared in Lightning Network?

Is it considered an unfair situation? And how the protocol address the problem?Continue readingHow the disposable private keys are being shared in Lightning Network?

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[overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format

The aim of this thread is to give a complete overview for anyone who finds Bitcoins in any storage format.Continue reading[overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format

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How Bitcoin Addresses are generated? Understand the Math behind Bitcoin

To use Bitcoin, user generally needs two things: Private Key and Bitcoin Address.Continue readingHow Bitcoin Addresses are generated? Understand the Math behind Bitcoin

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Step by step guide to go from public key to a Bech32 encoded address

I feel like having it step-by-step can make it a lot easier specially for developers.Continue readingStep by step guide to go from public key to a Bech32 encoded address