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Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. This page was last edited on 7 Mayat The discrepancy between the input and the output is the transaction fee and is taken by the miner solving the block in which the transaction is included. The first transaction in a block is referred to as the coinbase. Coinbase is a special transaction where the inputs refer to a non-existent transaction hash of all zeros.
Coinbase outputs are the sum of all the fees and the miner reward. Curiously it is possible for the same coinbase transaction to be included in more than one block, and there is at least one case of this in the blockchain. The implication of this is that the second instance of such a transaction is unspendable.
This oddity was addressed by a change in the consensus which requires the block height to be referenced in the coinbase and is since then no longer possible see BIP The same transaction can be included in more than one block.
This is common during chain splits, i. Chain splits also cause multiple blocks to have the same height which implies that height alone cannot identify a particular block or that it is unique. With introduction of SegWit transactions also include witness data. Witness is stored at the end of a transaction as a list where each entry corresponds to an input.
A witness entry is in turn a list, because an input can have multiple signatures aka witness. In the blockchain blocks and transactions are always referred to through their hash. A hash is an array of 32 bytes. While in theory we could build a schema which relies on the hash as the record identifier, in practice it is cumbersome compared to the traditional integer ids.
Firstly, 32 bytes is four times larger than a BIGINT and eight times larger than an INT, which impacts greatly the amount of space required to store inputs and outputs as well as degrades index performance. There is also an ambiguity in how the hash is printed versus how it is stored.
While the SHA standard does not specify the endian-ness of the hash and refers to it as an array of bytes, Satoshi Nakomoto decided to treat hashes as little-endian bit integers.
The implication being that when the hash is printed e. Using integer ids creates a complication in how inputs reference outputs. This is an easily justifiable optimization, without it to lookup the input transaction would require first finding the transaction integer id. The downside is that during the initial import maintaining the hash to integer id correspondence in an efficient manner is bit of a challenge.
Postgres 4-byte INT is signed, which presents us with two options: We are opting for the latter as preserving space is more important and for as long as all the bits are correct, whether the integer is interpreted as signed or unsigned is of no consequence. Blocks are collections of transactions. It is a many-to-many relationship as multiple blocks can include to the same transaction.
The CBlockHeader is defined in Core as follows:. Columns orphanstatusfilen and filepos are from the CBlockIndex class which is serialized in LevelDb and not formally part of the blockchain. It contains information about the file in which the block was stored on-disk as far as Core is concerned. This information is only necessary for debugging purposes, also note that it is unique to the particular instance of the Core database, i.
Same is true with respect to transaction id. Not only do we need to record that a transaction is included in a block, but also its exact position relative to other transactions, denoted by the n column:. A transaction is a collection of inputs and outputs.
In Core an output is represented by the CTxOut class:. Blockchain database schema design Handbook of Digital Currency: The spent column is an optimization, it is not part of the blockchain.
We took our time because we wanted to test the system. This would be a user defined selection of the most recent order history and is compared against the order history to create an average price. On the basis of these strategies, you can even write a small manual: вTrading on the exchange of crypto-currencies for teapots.