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How counter grows

The counter always increases by 1 for every operation - the difference is where the counter "starts". When an implicit (tz*) account becomes active (goes from 0 balance to more than 0), it adopts the ...
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Why a reveal operation?

Ethereum way of retrieving the public key only works with some signing algorithms, ECDSA with secp256k1 in its case. It is also used by Tezos for tz2 (and P-256 for tz3), but not for tz1 which uses ...
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Stuck in "Waiting for the operation to be included..." Infinitely

This means that your node is not fully synchronized yet or the fee you specified/defaulted is too low for any baker to include the operation. Verifying if node is Synchronized: ./tezos-client get ...
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What are all of the operation types supported in Tezos?

$ ./tezos-client rpc schema post /chains/main/blocks/head/helpers/forge/operations | jq '.input.definitions."operation.alpha.contents".oneOf | .[] | .properties.kind.enum | .[0]' "endorsement" "...
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How to use rpc parse operations endpoint

The problem is that /parse/operations expects signed operations. You can just add 64 zero bytes to the end: { "operations": [ { "data": "...
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Where is the reward operation for athens?

This happened directly as part of the context "stitching". When a new protocol is activated, an initialization function is called which lets the new protocol performs some housekeeping on the context ...
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Inject Signed Operation Fails With Unrevealed_Key Error

Before sending transactions from an account, a 'reveal' operation must be made for the account. It looks like this account may have been activated, but not yet revealed. To make this work we would ...
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Manager operation results: Applied | Backtracked | Failed | Skipped

The idea is pretty simple: failed - operations which failed with some particular error (not enough balance, gas limit, etc); backtracked - operations which were successful but reverted due to one of ...
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Ballot RPC message

Period is a 32-bit integer, the current period is 10 so you'd encode this as: 0000000a Proposal is just the hext bytes of the unencoded proposal hash, so you would b58cdecode the proposal hash and ...
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Is it possible to have a transaction operation in any operation's "contents"?

From my understanding, yes and no. There are four groups of operations: Baking - endorsements Voting - proposals and ballots Annonymous - seed_nonce_revelation, double_bake/endorse, activate_account ...
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How does tezos-client compute a transaction fee?

The fee computation follows the formula. The only subtle thing here is that the fee itself can affect the size of the operation in binary. This usually doesn't matter, but to handle the general case, ...
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Fees for various operation

Docs in tezos.git Docs by TezTech To copy from the tezos.git docs: fees >= (minimal_fees + minimal_nanotez_per_byte * size + minimal_nanotez_per_gas_unit * gas) (size is ...
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Operation cost for invoking smart contract

There is no formula that will give you the full cost and gas usage of smart contract invocation. The best method is to simulate. Contract code size and storage directly affects costs through storage ...
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What is an operation counter?

The counter is simply a number that is incremented with each operation. I think the documentation refers to a replay attack. If operations where not tagged with a counter, that is signed along with ...
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Listen for operations of a deployed contract

After working with @taquito/rpc for a little while and having success there I also discovered in the main @taquito/taquito package there's some useful things you can subscribe to on the stream. A ...
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Operation bytes parsing

If we put the hex strings next to each other and find out where they match it becomes easy to see why they differ. ...
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Decode a Tezos hexadecimal operation

You can use the tezos-codec binary from the latest mainnet-staging branch to parse these bytes. So, signing request are indeed prefixed by the tag 1 + <chain_id> for the block cases. The ...
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Stuck in "Waiting for the operation to be included..." Infinitely

In case your node isn't fully bootstrapped, you can run: tezos-client bootstrapped This command will let you know in case your node isn't fully synced.
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Does Tezos have any on-chain signature verification algorithms implemented?

It's called CHECK_SIGNATURE in Michelson.
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How to estimate Baker and Storage fee with @taquito for a contract?

You can call toTransferParams({amount: 5}) on the method you want to estimate, and pass that result to Tezos.estimate.transfer() The results of which will look something like: Estimate { _gasLimit:...
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Rewards for Operations

Here is a short description of how operations can affect balance: Transaction - transfer | fee Revelation - fee Origination - transfer | fee Delegation - fee Endorsement - reward ...
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Why won't transaction propagate to other nodes?

I don't agree that the mempool behavior indicate that the fee is all good. On the contrary. Public nodes like Giganode generally don't reject operations based on fee in the prevalidation, while most ...
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Can inject operation but can't preapply operation, returns 400

The preapply/operations endpoint requires an array of operations to be submitted. Just wrap your call around square brackets and it should work. This is how it's done in eztz.
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Sotez Forge Method Returns "Type Error: Expected String"

The operation should look like: const operation = { branch: 'BLDnyGuzjz6TuDvxgBtHUZmvY2zZqJ7VShDjZsHsxXQtnzrCrPf', // current head hash contents: [{ kind: 'transaction', source: '...
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Can I add metadata to a transfer operation?

In short, no you can't as your delegators would be using standard KT1 accounts to receive their funds which means you're limited with what you can do with it. You can capture the operation hash when ...
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Local operations vs remote operation

In general, there would be some logic to prioritize local operations versus remote operations. Yet, that would only be needed when a baker has both a baking slot, and the need to emit new operations ...
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Signed bytes and encodedSignature explanation?

The signature in hex is the last 64 bytes (128 hex characters). edsigtXomBKi5CTRf5cjATJWSyaRvhfYNHqSUGrn4SdbYRcGwQrUGjzEfQDTuqHhuA8b2d8NarZjz8TRf65WkpQmo423BtomS8Q is the signature of 64 zero bytes, ...
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Why Operations have extra money transaction that are not included in balance calculation?

That 257000 µꜩ is "origination burn". Simply put, when creating(or transferring to) a new address, there is a cost and the current value is 257000 µꜩ. Since this is a "burn", it's actually a deflation ...
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Where is the protocol change proposal injected?

Unless I am reading it wrong, there was one operation injecting both proposals: https://tzscan.io/onydFJLWdGhfKNBfbnSLmqDu93j9NRimkbQm9WqLWYG8eyZUyTF in Block 332624: https://tzscan.io/...
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Operation injected to node, but not added to blockchain | Wallet counter error

TLDR: the first operation you injected in your node is valid but will be never be injected by other nodes/bakers because it has too low fees. It is then stuck in the mempool and make the the next ...
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