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April 30, 2013, 02:56:42 PM
Last edit: April 30, 2013, 03:57:27 PM by tysat
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Looking at the bitcoin block chain on blockchain.info, I was wondering what happened to block #1551. Have a look here:

http://blockchain.info/block-index/1551

You'll see that this is block #1550, I've just addressed it by the block-index number in the URL, and they follow one another. However, the address for the next block is:

http://blockchain.info/block-index/3104

Why does block #1551 have block-index 3104 and not 1552? The block-index had incremented by 1 along with the block number from the start, but when I was expecting an increment by 1 from 1551 to 1552, it incremented by 1553 from 1551 to 3104. Is this just a peculiarity of blockchain.info's URLs? I notice that 1552 + 1552 = 3104, but that doesn't mean anything to me.



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April 30, 2013, 03:42:36 PM
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It means that blockchain.info, which is totally not "the blockchain", used a parser that assigned index numbers that have no relation to the sequence in the chain.

Can we get a stick at the top that "blockchain.info != blockchain != bitcoin" ?  I'm getting tired of these threads in here.

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May 01, 2013, 03:52:53 AM
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Is this just a peculiarity of blockchain.info's URLs?

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Yes.
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May 01, 2013, 04:57:25 PM
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It means that blockchain.info, which is totally not "the blockchain", used a parser that assigned index numbers that have no relation to the sequence in the chain.

Can we get a stick at the top that "blockchain.info != blockchain != bitcoin" ?  I'm getting tired of these threads in here.

Right under the bitcoin.org != bitcoin one?

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