Questions tagged [message]
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What method does My Wallet use to encode messages in the blockchain?
What kind of protocol does My Wallet use?
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Ramifications of illegal content in transaction messages?
Would it be possible to make using Bitcoin illegal by posting child porn or similar highly illegal content in the message of a transaction? There are methods for having 'thin clients' that don't download the entire transaction history - would these…
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Can I send message inside the transactions script?
I would like to send transactions with messages as described in the wiki. In Transaction with slightly changed script is never relayed, someone answered that non-standard transactions are not relaid by the client. I was wondering if this will affect…
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In which Block was Len Sassaman memorialised?
It has been mentioned a couple times here and there that Len Sassaman was memorialised somewhere in the Block Chain. I was able to find a dump of of the tribute to him, but I can't seem to find where in the Chain did this tribute come from.
What are…
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Using the bitcoin wallet PKI for message encryption
Is it possible for a message sender to encrypt a message string with a receiver's public wallet address, email this ciphertext to the receiver and then have the receiver decrypt the message using their wallet (private key)?
I'm not talking about…
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What is the maximum, realistic P2P message payload size?
In Bitcoin Core, MAX_SIZE defines the maximum valid P2P message payload size to be 32MB. Is it realistic that a peer sends a message payload close to 32MB? What is the maximum, but still realistic message payload size?
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Is it possible to send a message to a bitcoin address? how?
Say I have an online store that accepts bitcoins and want people to be able to contact me through my wallet, because that is ultimately the entity involved in an hypothetical trade.
Can that be done? how?
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How does blockchain.info associate a message with an address?
I randomly encountered this address on blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info/address/1CzpppydnGN5dQN7iBnZbmm5RXreu7hrHW and at the top a message appears presumably describing the owner of the address. I have not seen this before. Is this just a…
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How does Bitcoin decide which Alert messages to forward?
The Bitcoin protocol lists an Alert message that in the Standard Client is displayed to all users. How does the Standard Client decide which messages to forward and display, and which to ignore? Does it respond only to predefined signatures of the…
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Inv message structure
I am reading the Bitcoin wiki, and I see the inv message structure. I see it has a counter field for the objects and an inventory field. This inventory field has a list of objects (transactions or blocks), and I do wonder what it sends to the…
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Does the public key associated with an address become part of the public record after it has been used to spend?
Since bitcoin addresses are hashes of public keys and not public keys as such, if one wanted to craft a message that could be decrypted by the generator of an address, that can't be done just with an address. But after the generator of an address…
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How long does it take to propagate a new broadcasted message in the Bitmessage?
When a message has been signed off, it is propagated to the entire network. I would like to know how long does it take "on average"?
There are two types of messages, private messages and broadcast messages.
Private messages are encrypted with…
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What is "trickling" in terms of bitcoin?
In the Bitcoin (0.10.0) source code I'm coming across the term "trickle".
Could someone please give short but accurate explanations on following instances and tell what they're used for?
bool fSendTrickle
bool fTrickleWait
CNode* pnodeTrickle…
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Where are the Main network magic bytes stored in bitcoin's source code?
Bitcoin uses F9 BE B4 D9 as its main network magic bytes. I've searched the source but cannot find where these values are stored. Presumably they're computed, but I'm not sure where. Can someone tell me where they exist or are computed in the source…
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Wallets that support 40 byte message attachment via OP_RETURN? Desktop / Mobile?
I see that many new Bitcoin 2.0 apps are making use of the additional OP_RETURN parameter for attaching data. I see that max limit is 40 bytes or roughly 40 characters? My question now regarding OP_RETURN is:
So is it one OP_RETURN parameter for…
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