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/**
* The message start string is designed to be unlikely to occur in normal data.
* The characters are rarely used upper ASCII, not valid as UTF-8, and produce
* a large 4-byte int at any alignment.
*/
pchMessageStart[0] = 0xf9;
pchMessageStart[1] = 0xbe;
pchMessageStart[2] = 0xb4;
pchMessageStart[3] = 0xd9;
Field | Description | Size |
Magic no | value always 0xD9B4BEF9 | 4 bytes |
Blocksize | number of bytes following up to end of block | 4 bytes |
Blockheader | consists of 6 items | 80 bytes |
Transaction counter | positive integer VI = VarInt | 1 - 9 bytes |
transactions | the (non empty) list of transactions |
Field | Description | Size |
Magic no | value always 0xD9B4BEF9 | 4 bytes |
Blocksize | number of bytes following up to end of block | 4 bytes |
Blockheader | consists of 6 items | 80 bytes |
Transaction counter | positive integer VI = VarInt | 1 - 9 bytes |
transactions | the (non empty) list of transactions |
$ head -c 300 blk00000.dat |hexdump -C
00000000 f9 be b4 d9 1d 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b a3 ed fd |............;...|
00000030 7a 7b 12 b2 7a c7 2c 3e 67 76 8f 61 7f c8 1b c3 |z{..z.,>gv.a....|
00000040 88 8a 51 32 3a 9f b8 aa 4b 1e 5e 4a 29 ab 5f 49 |..Q2:...K.^J)._I|
00000050 ff ff 00 1d 1d ac 2b 7c 01 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 |......+|........|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff |................|
00000080 ff ff 4d 04 ff ff 00 1d 01 04 45 54 68 65 20 54 |..M.......EThe T|
00000090 69 6d 65 73 20 30 33 2f 4a 61 6e 2f 32 30 30 39 |imes 03/Jan/2009|
000000a0 20 43 68 61 6e 63 65 6c 6c 6f 72 20 6f 6e 20 62 | Chancellor on b|
000000b0 72 69 6e 6b 20 6f 66 20 73 65 63 6f 6e 64 20 62 |rink of second b|
000000c0 61 69 6c 6f 75 74 20 66 6f 72 20 62 61 6e 6b 73 |ailout for banks|
000000d0 ff ff ff ff 01 00 f2 05 2a 01 00 00 00 43 41 04 |........*....CA.|
000000e0 67 8a fd b0 fe 55 48 27 19 67 f1 a6 71 30 b7 10 |g....UH'.g..q0..|
000000f0 5c d6 a8 28 e0 39 09 a6 79 62 e0 ea 1f 61 de b6 |\..(.9..yb...a..|
00000100 49 f6 bc 3f 4c ef 38 c4 f3 55 04 e5 1e c1 12 de |I..?L.8..U......|
00000110 5c 38 4d f7 ba 0b 8d 57 8a 4c 70 2b 6b f1 1d 5f |\8M....W.Lp+k.._|
00000120 ac 00 00 00 00 f9 be b4 d9 d7 00 00 |............|
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