Invalid block 173958
00000000000007d8c52b7617067aacb42dedfdd5b37253515427d667f95285f8
Why it is invalid
- rule
- prev_block_invalid
- Core reject
bad-prevblk- Core check
AcceptBlockHeader- CI checks
parent_kind=invalid:prev_hashis a record in this dataset at height minus one. The header alone is the evidence.
Incident note: 173928, 173957, 173998 and 174605 - P2SH redeem-script failure (2012)
Each body includes the same 123-byte transaction, 4005d6bea3a93fb72f006d23e2685b85069d270cb57d15f0c057ef2d5e3f78d2, which spends a pay-to-script-hash output funded at canonical 170054, b0539a45de13b3e0403909b8bd1a555b8cbe45fd4e3f3fda76f3a5f52835c29d:1, worth 400000 satoshis.
Its scriptSig pushes only the redeem script, a 1-of-1 OP_CHECKMULTISIG.
The pre-BIP16 template check hashes that push and compares it, and passes; executing the redeem script finds no signature on the stack and fails.
Nodes applying the 1 April 2012 rules rejected these blocks while older nodes accepted them, which is how the same transaction was included by many miners for months.
Core today reports block-script-verify-flag-failed (Operation not valid with the current stack size).
Header
- version
- 0x00000001 (1)
- previous block
- 00000000000001bd778cffee5b5bae4c7b8d56a9aca955a04c60856b31b11155 (invalid, in this dataset)
- child in dataset
- 000000000000083b61d96eb1e64112e2b9a52f6a3b7370e61fca6955564f074a height 173959
- merkle root
- 0e22ed708f229aa8cddc7bbdb33ca45fa0d0285ba995a4930eda6bc0c958e721
- time
- 2012-04-02 02:39:08 UTC (1333334348)
- bits
- 0x1a0a507e difficulty 1,626,553
- nonce
- 1982433598
- header hex
- 010000005511b1316b85604ca055a9aca9568d7b4cae5b5beeff8c77bd0100000000000021e758c9c06bda0e93a495a95b28d0a05fa43cb3bd7bdccda89a228f70ed220e4c11794f7e500a1a3e892976
Evidence on file header only
Observations (3)
Where the block was seen or recovered. Observations record acquisition; they do not establish the failure.
| channel | source | child chain | first seen | provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p2p | bitcoincharts | https://web.archive.org/web/20121101170841id_/http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/blockchain-2012-05-01.tar | ||
| scrape | blockchain.com | https://web.archive.org/web/20120409062147id_/http://blockchain.info:80/block-index/202222 | ||
| scrape | decker-wattenhofer | https://github.com/NStifter/mergedmonitor/blob/54344d4e355f73eb94bef8d391e8fb6e4a9323a6/fork-analysis/decker-wattenhofer/orphans.tar.bz2 |