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I sent .277 BTC to Livecoin exchange and see that it now has 24 confirmations but hasn’t deposited to my exchange wallet. when I look at block explorer it shows it as a spent transaction. where is my BTC and will it deposit to the exchange? here is the txid: 03be9372aba4224a3007f8729cb3a371b0e253d2da711f11e59c3dd4a08579b5Read more

How long should it take a novice to completely read and learn a good(recommended) 1000-page programming book? I need to have an approximation in my mind before I start reading it. Of course I’m not a total novice, I know the basics of writing programs, the way they work, OOP to a good extent, andRead more

This question already has an answer here: Should my first trip be to the country which issued my Schengen Visa? 7 answers I have a Schengen visa from the Netherlands Embassy, but I want to visit Paris first before I move to the Netherlands; Is it allowed?Read more

I am trying to understand the mechanics of how a bitcoin transaction works. When the output gets consumed by a later transaction, who and how prevents this output from being consumed a second time? Do we go over all the transactions after to make sure it hasn’t been used? I am not sure what areRead more

This transaction has been stuck for a few days: af660c5eafe582f22254c9778d18a628d1d2fdea812e983713379458b7c2c9df https://blockchain.info/tx/af660c5eafe582f22254c9778d18a628d1d2fdea812e983713379458b7c2c9df How is it possible that one of the outputs is spent if the transaction is unconfirmed?Read more

Let’s say miner Moe mines a block taht is accepted by the network. Moe presumably receives some Bitcoins in his wallet for this. So let’s say Moe “spends” that Bitcoin by buying some anti-poking goggles from Curly, even though his newly mined block is at the top of the chain and has no blocks onRead more

As title states, would it be possible to have both the same spent adress as change adress. How it currently goes by default is that if you sent 10 bitcoins from adress A which holds 30 bitcoins, to adress C, 20 will be returned to a pre-generated change adress B. Would it be possible toRead more

lets say i gained bitcoins for mining a block and then spent them on a transaction, then later the chain im using gets replaced because of a longer chain. assuming the block difference is up to where i got my spent bitcoins, what will happen to the transactions and coins i gained and spent fromRead more