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Etherscan Forked Blocks' Reorg-Depth is Incorrect?
I suddenly found there is an reorg happened today whose depth is 3 on Etherscan.io here. The uncle blocks is at height 9919331 and the hash is ...
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Local ethereum node contain two different blocks but with same height
I am using geth node and found 2 different block with same number
eth.getBlock("0x162ae4b189f77ed65d0be270aa8dea08d4e7dcd70432a7d1fd4e6b0fb1b301d6")
{
difficulty: 1001546728,
extraData: "...
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How to test forked block on local machine?
Read this article How can I reliably induce a blockchain fork for testing purposes?.
Example from that thread is outdated, and need to be refreshed.
First my step is create initial chaindata from ...
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What happens to transactions in orphaned/forked blocks?
From my investigation and reading a lot about this, it seems like the transaction is just removed and the ether returns back to some address. With Bitcoin, orphaned blocks are initially accepted by ...
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