How do you build a merkle root without a coinbase transaction? I compute the merkle root without the coinbase portion and I get a different root then the submitter.
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1Could you clarify the intent behind your question? Calculating the merkle root in the Bitcoin protocol includes the coinbase. – Nick ODell Jan 6 '16 at 2:20
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Same as question bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/28133/31696 actually. I ask for coinbasetxn and do not get it from the pool. Is the pool set up wrong? (i.e I specify the mutable key to return it but it does not) – n8CodeGuru Jan 6 '16 at 2:23
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basically I am trying to verify I have everything right to compute merkle root if I where to submit a block. So I examine another submission. For an example I use block 391971 and I find that the coinbase transaction is actually at the top. So I change my code to generate the merkle root without a coinbase txn to verify I check the result I get for getrawtransaction of the coinbase transaction and double has that using dblsha(coinbase).encode('hex') now what I get is the little endian form of the hash. I am using the same python code in the exampe – n8CodeGuru Jan 6 '16 at 16:53
What pool are you using? As an example, if you hit (POST a request to) eligius pool (http://gbt.mining.eligius.st:9337) with the body as
{"id": 0, "method": "getblocktemplate", "params": [{"capabilities": ["coinbasetxn", "workid", "coinbase/append"]}]}
as taken from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate you will get a coinbasetxn field returned in the json.
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You got me :) I'm calling my own bitcoind service. I do not get it back. Perhaps there is a configuration setting. This is what I submit. .\bitcoin-cli.exe getblocktemplate '{\"id\": 0, \"method\": \"getblocktemplate\", \"params\": [{\"capabilities\": [\"coinbasetxn\", \"workid\", \"coinbase/append\"],\"mutable\": [\"coinbase/append\"] }]}' – n8CodeGuru Jan 6 '16 at 5:53
The coinbase transaction is on the top of the list. I was not able to verify the merkle chain because I think I have not reversed the endianess of the hash. I am using the same python code I got from the provided examples. I have not verified that this is the issue yet as I am not sure if I need to put the coinbase txn at the front or the end before the.
I am using dblsha(coinbase).encode('hex') perhaps there is another python method that does not reverse endianess.
