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Buying bitcoin from a specific block?

I want to buy 5-10 million sats that were mined in block 395,731. No particular reason other than it was the block that was mined just 2 minutes after my son was born. I figure it might be cool to give him when he gets older. How possible and how stu...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Problem with Bitcoin

Personally I’m a maximalist. For the last year or so I’ve spent free time talking to people I work with, friends, family, local businesses, and people from my church about bitcoin. These are my thoughts from the conversations I’ve had with people....

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

So I finally run my own node

Today’s the day. Sync on the full 500gb chain complete after 22h. I spent a total of £110 for a mini PC with i3, 8gb RAM and 1TB SSD. I know it’s not a fancy raspberry pi4 on umbrel etc, but I’m happy with it as I can still connect the electrum...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Noob question about wallet / public key balances

Just thinking about the blockchain - each block containing a number of transactions. I'm curious though - where are wallet balaces located? Does a wallet balance calculation have to crawl through multiple blocks to sum/minus transactions of coins...