Invalid block 173987

00000000000009f3837dfe0b996622db8428671330914a8d7f9b93c6d7f37467

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
00000000000004cbfa9f1f2ab919f08215d4d797a3b5fac14ee51abaf6792847 (invalid, in this dataset)
merkle root
491debb0b276257c54a70214eb73a546190805b1ad0ce96f4a6365d7adf8f6ab
time
2012-04-02 08:21:48 UTC (1333354908)
bits
0x1a0a507e difficulty 1,626,553
nonce
1876556807
header hex
01000000472879f6ba1ae54ec1fab5a397d7d41582f019b92a1f9ffacb04000000000000abf6f8add765634a6fe90cadb105081946a573eb1402a7547c2576b2b0eb1d499c61794f7e500a1a07fcd96f

Evidence on file header only

record
data/invalid-blocks.jsonl, line 15

Observations (3)

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