Does anyone know why Bitcoin requires miners to broadcast blocks that contains full transactions?
When a user want to make a payment on Bitcion, he/she needs to broadcast a signed transaction, and miners will gather all transactions in a transaction pool. Later, when a miner successfully mined a...
Listening to Goldman Sachs talking about Bitcoin being a bubble. They're trotting out "experts" who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to cryptography and and cryptocurrency.
@SEJPM Thanks, that was an interesting question. I just retagged it and it has already four answers.
@MaxVernon You don't have to know much about cryptocurrency to know that Bitcoin is a bubble. All money is a widely-shared illusion and thus a bubble "easily" deflated by the corresponding society suddenly rejecting it. Successful moneys are simply long-lasting bubbles. :p
I don't try to understand everything. I try to understand enough that I can be confident I'm not going to burn money/get scammed easily
I usually checkout commits that have been vouched for by devs (usually the releases)
If I need a patch from an un-merged issues, I'll take the time to read through it if it's handling actual transactions
For stuff like addrindex I'll glance over it, but won't pay as much attention
But usually most of what I do builds on top of nodes, so I don't really need to do that. Just grab a release, verify it, and carry on
I need to look into ln, though. Haven't had a chance to play around with it, and it's one piece of the btc system I don't understand well at the moment
