Request for data: top 5 blocks which include the highest count of transactions

[Greg Tonoski]

Can I ask you for the advice, please? I need to find the top 5 blocks which include the highest number of transactions. Is there a webiste (blockchain explorer) where I could find an answer, perhaps?

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[tbct_mt2]

Can I ask you for the advice, please? I need to find the top 5 blocks which include the highest number of transactions. Is there a webiste (blockchain explorer) where I could find an answer, perhaps?

Find it with Blockchair.com explorer.

Use this one https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks?s=transaction_count(desc)#f=id,transaction_count,time for filtering blocks with descending orders by Transaction counts.

You will get results like in the quote.

367,853   2015-08-01 01:06:41   12239
367,851   2015-08-01 00:25:40   9647
806,264   2023-09-05 00:03:49   7968
806,249   2023-09-04 21:33:34   7766
806,280   2023-09-05 02:45:22   7615
806,257   2023-09-04 22:52:13   7514
791,433   2023-05-26 03:21:43   7434
793,332   2023-06-08 02:49:02   7426
806,409   2023-09-06 03:47:55   7411
806,330   2023-09-05 12:55:47   7388

[DdmrDdmr]

The top two blocks are atypical though, and both (nearly correlative) blocks present anomalies such as those shown here. Notice the existence of thousands of TXs included in the block such as this one, with no inputs nor outputs.

There is an approach to a certain explanation provided here, though there’s probably a better description if we look around a bit more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fd2a9/f2pool_setting_a_new_record_most_transactions/

The other blocks on the list seem to be blocks that included many Ordinal BTC-20 related TXs, especially those from September 2023: Block 806264 for example had 91,8% of TXs being Ordinal related, block 806249 84,8%, block 806280 91,6%, and so forth.

[franky1]

The top two blocks are atypical though, and both (nearly correlative) blocks present anomalies such as those shown here. Notice the existence of thousands of TXs included in the block such as this one, with no inputs nor outputs.

There is an approach to a certain explanation provided here, though there’s probably a better description if we look around a bit more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fd2a9/f2pool_setting_a_new_record_most_transactions/

The other blocks on the list seem to be blocks that included many Ordinal BTC-20 related TXs, especially those from September 2023: Block 806264 for example had 91,8% of TXs being Ordinal related, block 806249 84,8%, block 806280 91,6%, and so forth.

yep all examples of cludgy code that allowed funky transactions that bypassed logical validation rules of bitcoin transfer.

[Greg Tonoski]

Use this one https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks?s=transaction_count(desc)#f=id,transaction_count,time for filtering blocks with descending orders by Transaction counts.

Thanks. Strangely enough, the Blockchair website is not reachable from some of networks that I connect to.

[tbct_mt2]

Thanks. Strangely enough, the Blockchair website is not reachable from some of networks that I connect to.

You can use the explorer with Tor and honestly I am really unsure what is your network issue to connect to it and use it smoothly.

Could you share more what problems you got, with what browser. Someone can help you if there is solution.

The other blocks on the list seem to be blocks that included many Ordinal BTC-20 related TXs, especially those from September 2023: Block 806264 for example had 91,8% of TXs being Ordinal related, block 806249 84,8%, block 806280 91,6%, and so forth.

More than 80% to over 90% of a block capacity is too much.

Ordinals become more annoying since February 2023 and in last two months of 2023, they caused more issues for Bitcoin mempools and non-Ordinal Bitcoin users.

This is much higher than 50% like they contributed in February 2023.

Bitcoin block space

[hugeblack]

367,853   2015-08-01 01:06:41   12239
367,851   2015-08-01 00:25:40   9647

What happened in 2015 to make miners accept about 12,239 transactions in one block? I thought the average transactions at that time were between 1,000 and 3,000? The strange thing is that there is a difference of one block between these two blocks, with a total of more than 20k transactions.

Knowing the top 5 blocks is not as important as knowing the average. Unfortunately, although the average is currently very high, the fees are still high.

[tbct_mt2]

367,853   2015-08-01 01:06:41   12239
367,851   2015-08-01 00:25:40   9647

What happened in 2015 to make miners accept about 12,239 transactions in one block? I thought the average transactions at that time were between 1,000 and 3,000? The strange thing is that there is a difference of one block between these two blocks, with a total of more than 20k transactions.

Knowing the top 5 blocks is not as important as knowing the average. Unfortunately, although the average is currently very high, the fees are still high.

I don't know. I only answered the question of OP.

There are top 10 blocks in 2015 and from this, I believe your guess about average transactions is closely to the fact.
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks?s=transaction_count(desc)&q=time(2015-01-01..2015-12-31)#f=id,transaction_count,time

367,853   2015-08-01 01:06:41   12239
367,851   2015-08-01 00:25:40   9647
364,807   2015-07-11 04:58:55   6451
364,972   2015-07-12 08:55:59   6144
365,074   2015-07-13 04:01:36   6084
364,837   2015-07-11 10:09:41   5973
365,068   2015-07-13 02:48:29   5946
364,951   2015-07-12 05:44:07   5944
365,077   2015-07-13 04:43:53   5937
365,047   2015-07-12 23:02:14   5866

Check with this chart, the average transactions per block in 2015 is about 1000 or less than 1000.
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/n-transactions-per-block