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Does anyone understand what each element of a block header represents? I have an example block header represented here:

[

cd7bd64fba4cc782fe5474d3640882afece5887180591e72f80ce6916cf73526,

1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347,

f927a40c8b7f6e07c5af7fa2155b4864a4112b13,

30430d24554454b251003be3d027dea94397bf45cd34c6a06abcfec662242046,

56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421,

56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421,

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,

3b32b8463f,

1780,

1388,

"",

55ba9f2d,

"Geth/v1.0.0/linux/go1.4.2",

437fa41b15c73334a947241ec885423a487d4401a0c3ec7c30550c1e039bccd7,

c5317acb884dfc49,

]

What do each of these elements represent? Is there an official source that also definitively says what each of these values mean?

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    Possible duplicate of : ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/268/… – Florian Castelain Nov 22 '17 at 1:49
  • Thanks @Andromelus, I believe this article is useful, but I don't believe I can derive what each of these values are from this post. I was hoping for a little more clarity about what each of these values represent. This article provides a pool of values that might apply to each of these but I do not know which order or which calculations to perform on them such as the date to get these values: Prev Hash, Nonce, Timestamp, Uncles Hash, Beneficiary, Logs Bloom, Difficulty, Extra data, Block Num, Gas Limit, Gas Used, MIx Hash, State Root, Transaction Root, Receipt Root. – Fortune Nov 22 '17 at 2:02
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You can find the block header's structure in the Yellow paper, 4.4 (page 5).

I don't have time to go through eveyrthing, but if I do not make any mistake, for example, you could bind the following:

cd7bd64fba4cc782fe5474d3640882afece5887180591e72f80ce6916cf73526 --> Parent hash

1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347 --> ommersHash

f927a40c8b7f6e07c5af7fa2155b4864a4112b13 --> beneficiary

30430d24554454b251003be3d027dea94397bf45cd34c6a06abcfec662242046 --> stateRoot

56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421 --> transactionsRoot

56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421 --> receiptsRoot

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --> logsBloom

3b32b8463f --> difficulty

1780 --> Number of ancestor blocks

1388 --> gasLimit

"" --> gasUsed

55ba9f2d --> timestamp

"Geth/v1.0.0/linux/go1.4.2" --> ExtraData

437fa41b15c73334a947241ec885423a487d4401a0c3ec7c30550c1e039bccd7 --> mixHash

c5317acb884dfc49 --> nonce

From what I read of your example, this matches pretty well.

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