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GHOSTDAG partitions the blockDAG into blue blocks and red blocks. In the final ordering, blue blocks take precedence, while red blocks are placed after them (unless the DAG’s topology forces otherw...

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Yes — red blocks themselves don’t receive rewards, but there’s an important subtlety. If rewards were simply destroyed whenever a red block appeared, the issuance rate of new KAS would fall behind...

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Does Kaspa support atomic swaps?

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Yes. Any cryptocurrency that supports HTLC can support atomic swaps, and since Kaspa-script is very similar to Bitcoin-script, the implementation would be practically the same.

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What's the difference between Kaspa's transaction payload and Bitcoin's OP_RETURN data?

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In Bitcoin, OP_RETURN is essentially a hack for publishing data on-chain without bloating the UTXO set: OP_RETURN is a Bitcoin opcode that makes the script fail instantly. Therefore, an output wit...

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Is there a CLI tool to send RPC commands?

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Yes, rusty-kaspa comes with the tool kaspa-cli that supports sending RPC command. For example, to send the RPC command get-block-dag-info you'll need to do the following: git clone https://github...

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There are no incentives to run a public node other than altruism.

posted 1d ago by someone235‭

No, in Kaspa each blue block receives a reward. The main reason is that rewarding only chain blocks (VSPC blocks) creates incentives for selfish mining. But there are other (milder) advantages to ...

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