Bitcoin mining evidence from merge-mined chains

Merge Mining Research publishes Bitcoin parent headers and, where available, coinbase data recovered from merge-mined chains such as Namecoin. The datasets show which child chains shared a Bitcoin block's proof of work and provide evidence for pool attribution. They cover blocks on Bitcoin's active chain, stale header candidates and documented consensus-invalid blocks. The checks on stale candidates do not establish full-block validity. Merge Mining Monitor combines these historical datasets with live observations from Bitcoin Core and active child chains.

Category

Blocks

Format

CSV, JSON

License

CC BY 4.0 (data), MIT (code)

Author

deadmanoz

Tags

• blocks
• coinbase
• consensus
• forks
• headers
• mainnet
• mining

Links

• Repository
• Merge Mining Monitor
• data/validated-stales/ (per-chain stale CSVs)
• data/error-blocks/ (consensus-invalid block catalogue)
• data/ (all committed datasets)
• Dataset reference (schemas)
• Data validity contract
• Echoes of the Past (Stifter et al., method basis)