Questions tagged [block]
The components of the blockchain and a data structure that collects transactions.
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What are the exact degrees of freedom in finding a valid block?
I am working on an educational project for bitcoin mining. I searched as much as I could but still haven't understood the following questions:
What are the "exact" degrees of freedom in ...
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processing input tx in bitcoin's block response and obtain transaction value of each input
so i was parsing the block #496 of bitcoin which contains two transactions, first tx in the list is the reward tx and the second tx contains three inputs and one output. i tried to parse each ...
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NodeJS code to deobfuscate chainstate data
I am currently working on a Blockchain trading platform for a company and I want to have all the unspent output saved to a local database by reading the contents of chainstate folder but I couldn't ...
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Are the blocks produced by different nodes in the network comparable in terms of the order of transactions contained in them?
Having a transaction from person A to B and another transaction from person C to D that both took place in more or less the same time I assume that there might be a situation in which different nodes ...
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What is the format of a Bitcoin block body?
To my understanding, the miners solve the nonce to get a valid block header based on the difficulty target. In the header, you have the Merkle root, which is generated from the transactions included ...
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Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions?
When a node receives a non-standard transaction (for example, it has more than one OP_return output or has some of the non-standard outputs), it will not be relayed further through the network, ...
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What prevents a faster, better-connected node stealing a miner's block solution?
Some questions already adressed similar issues (preventing fraud in a mining pool, what prevents a pool miner for stealing an entire block) but my question is different from those, if I understand ...
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Is there a well defined last block?
It's fairly well known when the last bitcoin will be mined, but is there a well defined last block?
By that I mean, is there a block height H after which Bitcoin Core nodes will refuse to accept any ...
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Can the price of bitcoin be obtained from the block data?
I am trying to understand the bitcoin block structure and if it's possible to obtain the price of a bitcoin coin from within the bitcoin block itself.
If the price of bitcoin is not obtained from the ...
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Read ordinal transaction data
I want to read an ordinal transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain and see its payload data.
Say I use the getrawtransaction RPC Method for bitcoin receiving a JSON of the form specified here. Where ...
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How can I collate blocks in blk*.dat files and rev*.dat files?
According to this answer, blocks in blk*.dat files and rev*.dat files don't necessarily appear in the same order, nor are either files necessarily in monotonic order, and blocks not part of the active ...
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Can I replace a single corrupted block?
I'm running Bitcoin Core on Linux and it seems I have a single corrupted block file which is causing problems. It's taken me 2 weeks to download 75% of the blockchain, so I'd like to replace the ...
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How many sigops are in the invalid block 783426?
On April 1st 2023 F2Pool mined block 00000000000000000002ec935e245f8ae70fc68cc828f05bf4cfa002668599e4 (full block) which my node failed with bad-blk-sigops.
Bitcoin Core stops counting as soon as it ...
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There's any open API to gather the blockNumber data?
Trying to create a scrip to convert wordpress posts/pages date and display it as blockNumber instead. For context, a similar question also posted on this stack.
Do anyone knows if there's any open API ...
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python bitcoin_explorer can't read block 761249
I installed bitcoin node, synced up to date.
I am using python bitcoin_explorer to read the block data.
I can read all blocks, however, I can't read block 761249
I am not sure it's my syncing problem, ...
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How to display {block number} instead {date value} on Wordpress posts?
Ideally, the goal is to show the block number (ie: 782667) instead of the date value (ie: 26 March 2023 4:44PM CT) on all wordpress posts and pages that currently display it.
There's maybe a script we ...
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Reading blk.dat files using pybtc does not yield transactions
I am trying to parse the blk.dat files using pybtc but I can't seem to get this right.
f = open(block_filename, "rb")
lines = f.readlines()
for block in tqdm(lines):
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How is it resolved when two miners find the block at the same time?
I am new in this world and I am trying to understand some simple concept of Blockchain and the propagation of transaction.
Let say that a transaction x is made so from what i understand until now this ...
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Relation between transaction data and transaction id
What is the relationship between transaction data and transaction id (which is used at mempool to generate Merkle root)?
Note : when we query the getblock with verbosity 2, we get raw block in json ...
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Block packets contain tx_in_sig_script, is this shared with tx data from tx packets?
I'm trying to find the signature script that is in a tx message so I can better parse data. I have found that it is in there sometimes, but largely the tx packets don't contain anything in the block ...
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How did Satoshi Nakamoto create the first Bitcoin? The Genesis Block
How did Satoshi Nakamoto create the first Bitcoin? I have never read any statement where he recommends specific tools like CGMiner. You can't mine with the Bitcoin Core software. Actually, Bitcoin ...
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Transaction Wallet-Address extraction
When taking a look at the blk.dat files I am confused about how I would go about getting sender(s) and receiver(s). It is clear to me that if I have multiple inputs / outputs that there might be ...
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Bitcoin P2P network: unable to receive the full block data (witness stripped off)
I wrote a small script to play with the bitcoin P2P network.
The script advertises itself as (NODE_NETWORK | NODE_WITNESS), and connects to a full node running on the LAN.
Everything seems to work ...
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Is it possible to retrieve input addresses and input values of bitcoin transactions from raw blk.dat files?
I'm developing a script that processes blk.dat files from bitcoin core. So far, I am able to retrieve the following attributes for transaction inputs:
"vin",
"index",
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How can an attacker change the address to receive someone's reward
At the end of my lecture, my lecturer asked a question that we never had time to cover:
A miner creates a block A, which contains address b, on which they want to receive their rewards. An attacker ...
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Exploiting the use of signature?
I've just learned signatures and why they're used in blockchain.
As I understand there is a key pair that consist of one public key and one private key:
Private keys are used to sign a message(...
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Number of transactions per blk.dat files
I am working on a parser for the blk.dat files being returned by the Bitcoin Core node. It seems to slow down considerably after a point and I am pretty sure it's because the number of transactions is ...
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Wrong hashes for blocks when parsing from blk
Hello I'm using a python script to actually retrieve information from a blk file and to read data.
import datetime
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file = open("REDACTED\blocks\\blk00000.dat", 'rb')
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How do i mine block #59502
I am not sur how to combine the information in block #59502
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/59502 in order to mine it how do you get the seconds on the timestamp
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Splitting of data across blkxxxxx.dat files
I am trying to parse out the bitcoin data using Big Data and wanted to know more about the blk files themselves. I was wondering how does bitcoin split the transactions across the files. I know there ...
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What is the different between CompactSize and VarInt encoding?
Pieter Wuille's definition of CompactSize encoding seems to match Greg Walker's definition of VarInt encoding, yet the BitcoinWiki claims that CompactSize is not to be confused with VarInt.
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Can someone with majority hashing power decide what transactions are included in my block?
I read this paragraph about if a mining pool controls the majority of the hashrate on the network:
Blocking Transactions:
Anyone who controls the majority of the hashing power can decide which
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Are transactions included in a block or is only the Merkle-root hash included in a block
Before broadcasting block into bitcoin blockchain, Does a Block transactions are included in a block or only the hash of them are included in a block. While I am surfing through net, I came across two ...
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Difference between pprev and pskip pointers in the CBlockIndex class?
In the Bitcoin Core there is class called CBlockIndex which as its name appears is the implementation of blocks. This class has two variable that for me they looks the same:
class CBlockIndex
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Does current Bitcoin break in 2038?
I've heard about year 2038 problem and I'm worried I've read about Bitcoin measuring time with 32 bits, why aren't developers worried about Y2038P only 15 years away?
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Where Is Signature Data Stored In Post-SegWit Transactions?
If i'm correct, i am pretty sure that signature data such as the scriptsigsize
and scriptsig is stored outside the Tx_Data of a Bitcoin transaction. But then where is it stored? Is it in the block or ...
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What's the logic behind the way block proofs (in GetBlockProof) is calculated?
Bitcoin Core uses GetBlockProof() function to determine the contribution of a block to the total difficulty of the current chain, aka, nChainWork in CBlockIndex. I'm having trouble understanding the ...
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How are validity flags in block index set in concurrent blocks when one of them is chosen?
I'm trying to understand block validity flags, and what happens when a branch occurs.
I found a block status flags in the bitcoin core source code:
enum BlockStatus : uint32_t {
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Does local blockchain database (blkXXXXX.dat) contain abandoned forks forever?
When my node realizes that the given block needs to be abandoned - does it leave it in the database or replace the block with a valid one? And if "invalid" block remains: is it somehow ...
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How are TXIDs determined from the raw hex data of a block? Also, what is the coinbase transaction?
Consider the hex data of block 170.
The coinbase TXID is this: b1fea52486ce0c62bb442b530a3f0132b826c74e473d1f2c220bfa78111c5082 and the second TXID is: ...
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What are the components of the raw block shown in this image?
I'm wondering what the portion between the block header and the transaction data (the un-annotated section) is. I can't seem to find any information on it.
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Is there a way to know how many of currently unconfirmed transactions in the MemPool is currently being attempted by other miners?
Assume there there 100 unconfirmed transactions currently in the MemPool. And the size of a block is such that it's roughly made up of 10 transactions.
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Where does this 2^32 come from?
Several months ago I was doing research into calculating mining revenue for several crypto currencies. When trying to calculate BTC revenue I found this value 1/2^32 which was described somewhere ...
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How does the block searching by txid works?
Is that the process will go through all the blocks and find the block which contains the txid or there's an index table for all transactions?
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In what format does a block store the transaction data?
Does it store the raw transaction data literally like (excuse the formatting inaccuracies):
0x24134i59435ej3...9 sends 0x9wri03vw3sdfsd...i 26.00000023423 Bitcoin.
Or is it stored differently?
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How do I run the invalidateblock command on bitcoind?
For a particular need I need to restart with the chain from a specific previous block.
I thought about using the invalidateblock command, but it's a bitcoin-cli command and if I run it on bitcoind it ...
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Why aren't more empty blocks mined?
So currently only a tiny amount of empty blocks are mined
A total of 71 empty blocks were mined in the first five months of 2020,
accounting for 0.3% of the total blocks produced — less than half of ...
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Peer-to-peer - informations about downloading
I would like to know how the software downloads the blockchain. If the bytes write throught the socket and wait until it's written. And If the software asks 16 blocks to each peer in which you're ...
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How many transactions fit into a single block?
there is a limited number of transactions that fit into a block
if the network requires more throughput (more bitcoin is being sent), that means more blocks will be solved in a shorter time interval
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Only My Transaction in a block
I am thinking of broadcasting a Bitcoin transaction with a very important message. The message is so important that I want it to be the only transaction (other than coinbase) in the block.
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