block mined by Eligius

[p2pbucks]

Hi guys ,

I want to know how to figure out whether a block is mined by Eligius . I can find known pools by pay out address on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Known-Pools/master/pools.json .

Code:

 curl -l https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Known-Pools/master/pools.json |sed 'N;s/{\n//'| grep $(./bitcoind getbestblockhash | xargs -i ./bitcoind getblock {} | sed -n '/"tx"/{n;s/"|,//g;p}' | xargs -i ./bitcoind getrawtransaction {} | xargs -i ./bitcoind decoderawtransaction {} | sed -n '/"addresses"/{n;s/"|,//g;p}' )

But it seems Eligius newly generated coins are distributed to many different addresses . So how to determine a new block is mined by Eligius ?
Any ideas ? thanks

[amaclin]

There is no way to determine who have mined the block.

Try the following (pseudocode):

if ( memstr ( coinbaseTx.scriptSig, "Eligius" ) ) // looks for string in byte array
  printf ( "possibly mined by Eliguis" );
else
  printf ( "mined by somebody else or Luke-Jr changed the software" )

See also
https://github.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Known-Pools/blob/master/pools.json
  

[p2pbucks]

There is no way to determine who have mined the block.

Try the following (pseudocode):

"Eligius" in coinbase scriptsig? OK , i will try . thanks for the answer