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How to recover a bitcoin wallet on a Windows drive amid 30 gigabytes of files

PowerShell: Verify if not an image file regardless of file extension You can use the below PowerShell to spit the full file name for each file processed using the Bitmap Class of the System.Drawing ...
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Can I siphon off unused power from a PSU?

Not likely. PSU's are switching power supplies with internal voltage regulation, which makes paralleling them difficult. For example, if one supply outputs 4.99 V and the other 5.01 V, the higher ...
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How many Bitcoins could I mine per month

You could try to download a Bitcoin miner (such as GUIMiner) and see how many hashes per second can your PC mine. However, right now is quite difficult to earn profits as a particular with a common ...
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Are bitcoin generators legal?

The legal question is overriden by a technical one: Are bitcoin generators possible? And this must be answered with a resounding "No". Every single bitcoin ever in existance was "generated" with the ...
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Bitcoin faucets show "Server Error 500" on my network, but on others works fine

You probably can't fix that. HTTP error 500 is an internal server error. Server errors can usually only be fixed by the server administrator. To do so they would consult the server's error log. That ...
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bitcoin-cli testnet : Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332

I started using bitcoin core 2 years ago. I recommend you first start by opening the application version, not the daemon, just to make sure you have finished the installation correctly: $ bitcoin-qt ...
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Spam Email from me to me

No one can verify they DON'T have your accounts, because that in itself would be bad even if us 'good' guys have it. I would strongly speculate it is spam & trying to scare you into doing ...
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Understanding Bitcoin addresses

It's absolutely trivial to generate billions of addresses if you want to. It's only slightly more than trivial to check all of these addresses to see if a payment has been received by any of them.
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What kind of SSD Formats Do Raspberry Pi support?

Raspbian for Raspberry Pi is Linux based, so I would recommend ext4. If you would like to use the drive on other operating systems and not Linux exclusively, try FAT. Also, this website has a really ...
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How can I get a total of all asks and bids from Binance using this curl on Linux?

While not the shortest version, this jq script does the job: {asks, bids} | to_entries | .[] | . as {key: $kind, value: $data} | $data | map({price: .[0] | tonumber, qty: .[1] | tonumber}) | map(....
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Recommended zfs properties for blockchain data mountpoints

In bytes, the on-disk format for the Bitcoin blockchain is made up mostly of signatures and hashes. In ZFS or any other storage system, there are three main techniques for byte efficiency: ...
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how to install bitcoin-qt wallet on debian 7

Add below line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main Then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bitcoind
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