There is the data called "beneficiary" in block header. What is this data?
asked Jul 23, 2016 at 0:30
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Please provide a link to an example block– BokkyPooBahJul 23, 2016 at 0:35
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"beneficiary" is in the figure image in following answer. ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/268/…– Satoshi NakanishiJul 23, 2016 at 0:55
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Here's the image from the linked answer Ethereum block architecture provided in your comment.
And here's the data from a block 1932656. Beneficiary in the image above is the miner in the data below. The Beneficiary receives the block reward of 5 ethers.
> eth.getBlock("latest")
{
difficulty: 59542618611819,
extraData: "0xd78301040a844765746887676f312e362e32856c696e7578",
gasLimit: 4712388,
gasUsed: 152778,
hash: "0x8cb83abce49e0519517eb80f855f195484765c809bea8c7d5382031f763f9e5b",
logsBloom: "0x00000000000000020000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000040000000000008000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000400000000000020000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
miner: "0xbcdfc35b86bedf72f0cda046a3c16829a2ef41d1",
nonce: "0xc8a0edd33d21e5ad",
number: 1932656,
parentHash: "0x02cf39cec15847646ddd6732ade2e28e8e863298047dd4d9ce063dbb995d4f40",
receiptRoot: "0xb057e15fc6cae04608c91eb58510e26066d5c52abd56b6cf494d1a2ff3ccbc91",
sha3Uncles: "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
size: 1286,
stateRoot: "0x0f02a05b7dd3c11745cd03b69c35e3b1a0f678252abecf5fcac7386d19cc8da0",
timestamp: 1469203461,
totalDifficulty: 40241549278922643891,
transactions: ["0x37ea70aa47f2fdd58aa4f0ad3a99b8c08848f2597eecd9c400762f86234becfe", "0x7b0a17a9e5db028ab6c5acd7aa4a61a5ae9b91f6ba917523aac413a454061385", "0xde92594f7329163325a508378e48cd64d9bf1ae5384d15c7847f79c2817d61b3", "0xce446d81af127eb8c67bc4f50572e73b72bdc37d2a2d87fbf06ba1dfd5c7da8a", "0x9c40ba3ee3960b5b7a534432aaa62fc5241458f8e28c36991cca168469d83f15", "0xf93ef96448178b1c963982c1a25a7b3136da728655091bc7c964c0cc2479ef79"],
transactionsRoot: "0x4d43ebb736e55feddd5993219da2b2dc4984f7aad4b18637dfd90368dc8e64c5",
uncles: []
}
answered Jul 23, 2016 at 1:08
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So beneficiary is not correct, right? "miner" means the address of miner who receives the mining reward. Am I right? Jul 23, 2016 at 2:37
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3Beneficiary is also correct. The Yellow Paper tries to be more general, because when there's a move to something like Proof of Stake, "mining" and "miner" is less accurate.– eth ♦Jul 23, 2016 at 2:42
The beneficiary field contains the 160-bit address of the recipient that will receive the mining reward once the block is successfully mined.
