what is the confirmation section in the block info?

Question

in the details of a bitcoin block there's a section called block confirmation (which is different than transaction confirmation), first i thought it was the number of the blocks that are created after this block but there is a lot of blocks that has one confirmation with a great number of blocks after them, i would appreciate it if you can tell me how does that work? this is a an important research for me, if you don't have any information about the matter please vote for my question so i can get an answer, thank you.

Answer 1

in the details of a bitcoin block there's a section called block confirmation

The details of what is in a block as transmitted between Bitcoin nodes is shown at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation and other places. In the Bitcoin network, there's no item "block confirmation" that counts block confirmations.

Block Headers

Block headers are sent in a headers packet in response to a getheaders message.

Field Size	Description	Data type	Comments
4	version	int32_t	Block version information (note, this is signed)
32	prev_block	char[32]	The hash value of the previous block this particular block references
32	merkle_root	char[32]	The reference to a Merkle tree collection which is a hash of all transactions related to this block
4	timestamp	uint32_t	A timestamp recording when this block was created (Will overflow in 2106[2])
4	bits	uint32_t	The calculated difficulty target being used for this block
4	nonce	uint32_t	The nonce used to generate this block… to allow variations of the header and compute different hashes
1+	txn_count	var_int	Number of transaction entries, this value is always 0

Many websites that display blockchain data add extra items of their own invention. For example, when looking at a transaction, some websites show a sending address even though this is not present in the actual transaction data as transmitted between nodes.

This "block confirmation" count may be something of this sort. To find out what it means you have to ask the support team at that specific website.