Questions tagged [cryptocurrency]
A cryptocurrency is a digital currency powered by cryptography. This tag is applicable only to Q&As about the **cryptographic mechanisms** used by a currency, not for questions about economy, usage, or acquisition of any particular currency. The later kind are unwelcome. Please note that Stackexchange has dedicated websites for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc.
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How to check coins & confirmations amount [closed]
How do I check the amount of coins are in a crypto wallet? And how do I check the confirmations?
Is this process different for each cryptocurrency?
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How to generate a random string in Python for a mission-critical application
I'm trying to figure something out, but it is difficult for me. I need to generate a fully random string in Python. My current function is attached below. I just want to know whether this is secure ...
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How are zero-knowledge proofs used in blockchains to achieve anonymity?
The idea of blockchain is clear to me - If we reach consensus and all participants have the same state, it is easy to verify transactions. But new mechanisms (like Z-Cash) allow this without the ...
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Bitcoin energy waste
Reading learnmeabitcoin I found the following how bitcoin works:
The bitcoin difficulty self adjusts so that a block is solved on average in 10 minutes.
Solving a block requires the miner to generate ...
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What hash structure is Facebook Diem using?
Crypto currencies use fixed values in some positions in the resulting hash, like a fixed amount of initial zeros. What fixed positions and fixed values are Facebook Diem using?
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Is it possible to provably make cryptocurrency tokens inaccessible?
Would it be possible to generate an agreed upon public key that has no corresponding private key (maybe by using the latest few block hashes of a blockchain) and then send cryptocurrency to that ...
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What are the algorithms used in Facebook's Diem algorithm?
Facebook plan a new cryptocurrency release called Diem. What algorithms are used? What output size is used for the hash function?
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is it efficient if blockchain uses double Hash algorithms $H_1$ and $H_2$?
I wonder is it efficient to use less Target condition and double hash algorithms with different target (or the same target with different Hash algorithms) and one nonce in a Block.
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Moving a monero wallet+ node from a disk to another one [closed]
I dont know where to put this question, and the most appropriate would be here i guess, i found no criptocurrency stack, if its not here i would apreciate a link to post this
I've downloaded a monero ...
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Are newer crypto currencies intrinsically more energy efficient, or just newer? [closed]
There's a lot in the news about the energy cost of Bitcoin recently. Recently Elon Musk talked about "currencies using <1% the energy per transaction of BTC".
This page provides some ...
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BIP 39: If I mix my 24 seed phrase with another 24 words, will the checksum property allow an attacker to retrieve the original seed phrase?
Assume that I have a 24-word passphrase that I want to store securely but online by mixing it with another 24 words in a manner only I know. Does the checksum property somehow help an attacker to ...
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Fully understanding bitcoin transcation verifying and secp256k1
Hello fellow cryptographers.
I have spent last few days trying to understand and find a way to generate secp256k1 private and public keys from scratch, but i failed.
I have seen tons of videos and ...
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minimal trading amount per transaction, looking for exchange [closed]
I currently developed crypto bot with support of low transaction estimate to buy/sell. Now I am looking for exchange allowing to buy all possible pairs for under a \$1 or even less. Let's say BTC/USDT ...
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How to retrieve BIP39 seed phrase: 3 words missing of 24
I lost 3 middle words of my 24 words seed phrase for a nano ledger hardware wallet.
As an example (not my real seed phrase)
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Can Litecoin & Bitcoin have overlapping Transaction Ids (txid) [closed]
Im currently coding my own transaction lookup page for cryptos. Since Litecoin and Bitcoin are so similar to their txid. I wanted to ask if its actually possible that these 2 currencies have ...
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What are alternatives to Proof of Work for consensus of a blockchain that doesn't contain anything of value?
For example, a distributed blockchain that would keep track of the weather. Anyone could add a weather reading, and several of these would be stored in each block, just like transactions in a ...
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Calculate private key from public key and r [closed]
I watched this video where somebody finds bitcoin wallet private keys using only the "sigR" value and the public key using a python script named "formula".
How does this work and ...
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Encrypting cryptocurrency seeds for cold storage
I’d like some feedback on an encrypting algorithm. I’m not rolling my own, but even putting together well-proved pieces may create many pitfalls. (I don’t know if I'm stretching questioning in this ...
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Does applying a “PushEntropy”-function increase security of a private key?
I was just reviewing the source-code of the NBitcoin-package. As far as i can see when you create a new bitcoin-keypair
Key privateKey = new Key();
(without passing ...
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Can you elaborate on pBFT for dBFT in relation to PoW and PoS consensus algorithms in layman's terms?
I've read all other related answers and googled this extensively. My intention and background in asking this question is that I am delving into cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in general. ...
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How to associate a post-quantum public key with a pre-quantum one in blockchains?
As a layperson, I'm curious if a cryptocurrency could fork to a quantum-resistant algorithm without people losing access to their wallets. Is it possible to generate a quantum-resistant public key ...
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Why wouldn't you just refer to the hash of the jpg file in the NFT storage?
This question is in reference to this tweet. It seems people are using the url of third party websites to record the reference to the content for NFTs. Why can't people just hash the jpg files for ...
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How are objects sold as NFT's (“non-fungible tokens”)?
I'm familiar with "blockchain" and the theory and technology behind cryptocurrencies, tokens, and the economics behind why such things are capable of having monetary value, however I've ...
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How Secure Is Splitting A Bitcoin Private Key?
NOTE: This question cannot be posted to Bitcoin SE because it will not render there due to the mathematical notation. Since the mathematical notation is part of the question, this is the more ...
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Bitcoin Key Recovery Without Nonce Re-Use
There are a lot of questions in these forums regarding the recovery of private keys.
But I'm here to postulate on something unique to a specific piece of research that I looked into recently.
The ...
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Attestation of private key deletion
I recently came across an article outlining a framework for a hypothetical cryptocurrency, the article is here if you care to read the whole thing. The relevant section is the "Digital Cash" ...
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How are new coins minted in Proof of Stake systems
I've been trying to understand Proof Of Stake cryptocurrency systems, but I don't see how new coins are made using the Proof Of Stake system.
My current understanding of Proof Of Stake
People put up ...
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Would It Be Technically Possible To Delete Old Blocks From A Blockchain Cryptocurrency?
From what I understand, a cryptocurrency mine needs to store a copy of the entire blockchain in order to be able verify transactions, which is why most wallet owners are not miners. The more ...
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Is there any application for ZKP that prove that “I know the pre-image of Hash function”
I'm looking for any applications that using ZKP to prove that "I know the pre-image for Hash function".
As far as I know, POUR operation in Zcash uses this concept but I can't find any ...
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On sub-linear ring signatures and transaction sizes
I've been reading Noether's paper on Triptych and its extension Arcturus, alongside a few others exploring sub-linear ring signature schemes.
I only have one question. Each paper (RingCT3.0 and its ...
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Hash as encryption used by Monero
Monero uses a Pedersen commitment $yG + bH$ to obfuscate the value of a transaction, where $b$ is the value and $y$ is the blinding factor.
For the receiver to know both variables, it uses a Diffie-...
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Cryptocurrencies: Undetectable Nothing-at-Stake - why does it matter?
The paper Formal Barriers to Longest-Chain Proof-of-Stake Protocols (Brown-Cohen, Narayanan, Psomas, Weinberg, 2018) describes an attack on Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrencies called Undetectable Nothing-...
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Can Blake2 be a replacement for double SHA-256?
My previous question was closed because it was too open-ended, so let me simplify the question:
Is it a good choice to drop double SHA-256 and use straight Blake2 in a Bitcoin-like blockchain (more ...
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How can I get issuerNameHash and issuerKeyHash from PEM or DER certificates?
I need to get these values from pem and der files. Is there Python and C code or openssl command for these results?
Example cert in PEM format:
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Calculating the point on the curve during ECDSA signature verification
I'm confused as to how he got (62, 44) as an answer within this article: https://www.coindesk.com/math-behind-bitcoin
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Is double SHA-256 the best choice for Bitcoin?
So I was just curious.
I really look up to Blockchain technology and I have read that Bitcoin uses double SHA-256 for hashing.
( from what I understood, double sha256 is essentially $\operatorname{SHA-...
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Clarification questions about timestamp servers
I am reading the bitcoin white paper, and I came across the concept of timestamp servers in it. Unfortunately the description of the usage of a timestamp server leaves me with more questions. And ...
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Map many crytocurrency token IDs (2^512) into a single set of tokens IDs (2^256)
Let we have a finite (small compared to 2256) set $T$ of 257-bit numbers.
Need a function $f: T \to 2^{256}$ such that it's almost of zero probability that $f(n)=f(m)$ for two different numbers $n,m\...
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Recovery Passphrase Collission for BIP-39 and BIP-44
Referring to the standards of [BIP-39] and [BIP-44]: a 'master password' consisting of 12 words uniformly selected from a 2048-word dictionary corresponds to 128 bits of entropy, that is then used as ...
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R, S, and Z values in a transaction using the Transaction ID
How can i get the R, S, and Z values and the Public Key using a transaction IDE i have?
I knew of a website called 2coin.org which provided these values but now the website is no more active and it ...
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Universal Computation “measurement” using SNARKs?
If SNARKs are able to prove computations of arbitrary complexity and difficulty were executed correctly, would it be possible to use them to create a Proof of Work consensus system where ANY ...
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Can we use Bitcoin miner to break 2Key 3DES, if yes how long it takes?
As ASICs are specifically designed to generate the hash for a block of a block chain. which is much faster than other GPUs which are used to break 2key-3DES. can we use Array of ASICs to break 2key-...
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Cryptographic limit to total accounts in secp256k1
Factoring in birth day attacks and all that, with 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography, lets take secp256k1 as example that Bitcoin uses, what is the maximum number of accounts that are secure? It isn'...
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Why shouldn't cryptocurrency hash algorythms, resist side channel attack?
2015's Argon2 publication suggests that cryptocurrency hashing like password hashing on backend servers should not be subject to side-channel attack:
Argon2d is optimized for settings where the ...
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Probability of finding a valid block when cryptocurrency mining
Today I learned that for BTC, the probability of a hash being valid is approximately 1/(D*2^32), whereas D denotes to the difficulty. I was wondering if this is ...
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How can I prove ownership of hardware wallet?
I’m applying for a mortgage loan and I recently made a large deposit into my bank account from crypto stored on a ledger hardware wallet . I sent the funds to Coinbase where I converted to usd and ...
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Cryptography that lets you conceal a secret, but also alerts others of the exposure of the concealed secret?
Is there such a cryptography where I can prove that someone decrypted an encrypted string? Say I wanted to attach a Bitcoin private key in some type of digital container, but in order to open this ...
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Is RSA secure enough to protect bitcoin private keys? [duplicate]
Suppose my very trusting friend has a bitcoin private key with a large balance (let's say $1B USD worth of Bitcoin) and wishes to keep a backup copy with me as a trustee.
He doesn't want to transfer ...
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Suggestion on dynamically changing hash algorithms for blockchain
First of all excuse me for my inexperience on the topic (I am new to cryptography). I am currently studying for my Master thesis and am am looking for hash function on which I can modify them so thy ...
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Bitcoin ECDSA signature
I am trying to use the ecdsaSign function in ecdsa.c of https://github.com/kvhnuke/Ethereum-Arduino/tree/master/Ethereum-Arduino/libs which is based on the files in the repo https://github.com/...
