Questions tagged [discovery]
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Is Bitcoin network truly distributed without central authority?
When a node joins the Bitcoin network it gets its info from either a preinstalled list, dns or irc. All of these 3 could potentially imply a central authority for who's on the network. Who exactly maintains them?
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Where does bitcoin-qt try to connect to when running for the first time?
My question is, where does bitcoin-qt try to connect to when running for the first time? How does it know where to connect?
Is blockchain.info some domain that has discovery services? If yes, then what happens if this domain goes down? Would that…
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Node Discovery Issue
On my node's https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/ page, clicking the "Check Node" button on the bottom of the page reports that the node associated with this IP address is up; however, at the top of the page, "Node Status" says it isn't. It seems my node is…
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Whether I have to scan all types of addresses to discover BIP44 wallet from mnemonic?
Let's assume that I am going to create a new address in bitcoin HD wallet knowing only mnemonic words and that previously addresses were generated according to BIP44.
BIP44 gives an algorithm how to perform discovery but one thing is not clear for…
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