The blocks tag has no usage guidance.
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What is a fork database?
There is a mention of a fork database in the docs for the bnet_plugin. Could you please tell me what the fork database is and how is it related to the state of the nodeos node?
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list of confirmed and unconfirmed transactions of address / account
I wanna show users a list of confirmed and unconfirmed transactions of a specific EOS address or account name, using eosjs. Similar like a Ethereum block explorer.
Any ideas or work arounds?
If ...
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How exactly is the block height defined in EOS?
I wanna show users the confirmation height of their transactions.
Which one is the way to go?
Latest block - transaction block
OR
Last irreversible block - transaction block
?
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Can we get all the actions from all blocks?
Somebody say we can get all the blocks through rpc, then we can get all the actions.
But I found that in the block information, there're no inline actions, so many inline actions will lose, right?
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How can I download all ledger blocks as a JSON dump?
I'm trying to download a relatively up-to-date dataset of all blocks in JSON format, but haven't found a good solution:
cleos can only fetch blocks one by one ($ cleos get block n) which is way too ...
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Why does eos produce continuous blocks?
I am wondering about permanently producing blocks. Can someone explain why we need this ?
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EOS: How to get structured data within transaction？Is there restful API for this/
Suppose A sent a transaction to SC(smart contract), including structured data, for example:
{"intention":"like","target":"ae16xx0...."}
As usual, this transaction will be stored on all nodes in the ...
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Is a transaction(like token transfer) could fail after being sent? if so, how can I get information about it?
In EOSIO, we know that a transaction can be packed in block very fast, and we can also treat it as irreversible after "lastirreversibleblock >= block_num".
Whether a transaction could fail after ...
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How to get current block number in smart contract?
How do I can get the current block number in EOS? (in ethereum, I can use block.number).
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What block hash function and transaction signature method does EOS use?
What hash function does EOS use for creating a block. Is it SHA-256?
In addition, what procedure for signing a transaction is used? RSA?
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how to know if a transaction was include in block?
In bitcoin and ethereum blockchain, I can get transactions's details that not included in blockchain yet via api. but in EOS blockchain ,it seems that there were no such api to get those information.
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What is EOSIO max block size?
What is the EOS.IO software maximum block size?
Does it even have such constant limit?
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How to validate a block obtained with /v1/chain/get_block
Lets say that from outside the chain I call /v1/chain/get_block http endpoint.
I would like to be able to post that JSON back to a contract thru a context free action and validate that the block is ...
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Block data structure
Can someone explain the transaction_mroot, action_mroot and block_mroot used in block_header? I understand what a merkel tree is. Is transaction data actually stored in block or just the transaction ...
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How does a node acquire new blocks from the network?
When running a non-producer node on the EOS blockchain, how does the node receive new blocks as they are produced? Are they sent to it from a particular node? Can the software receive blocks from ...
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Can someone explain the transaction struct?
{ expiration: '2018-05-09T10:21:48',
region: 0,
ref_block_num: 1055,
ref_block_prefix: 4035814219,
max_net_usage_words: 0,
max_kcpu_usage: 0,
delay_sec: 0,
What is expiration, ...
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Is the block digest c++ specific?
I'm not sure how to write this block header digest/hash generation in another language then C(++). Is this even possible without a lot of hacking?
If so: Could a language-neutral format for the ...
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How often/consistent are blocks on EOS?
How often are blocks produced on EOS? Are they consistent? In Bitcoin the blocks are only mined on average within 10 minutes, not guaranteed 10 minutes - does EOS differ?
