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_hash is 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

record
data/invalid-blocks.jsonl, line 9

Observations (3)

Where the block was seen or recovered. Observations record acquisition; they do not establish the failure.