Block

DeltaChain defines a block in Golang as:
// block.go
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type Block struct {
 header *Header
 txs tx.Transactions
}
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type Header struct {
 body headerBody
}
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type headerBody struct {
 ParentID delta.Bytes32
 Timestamp uint64
 GasLimit uint64
 Beneficiary delta.Address
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 GasUsed uint64
 TotalScore uint64
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 TxsRoot delta.Bytes32
 StateRoot delta.Bytes32
 ReceiptsRoot delta.Bytes32
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 Signature []byte
}
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type Transactions []*Transaction
where ParentID is the ID of the parent block, Beneficiary is the address assigned by the block generator to receive reward (in DTHO), and TotalScore is the accumulated witness number of the chain branch headed by the block. We will describe what the score means when describing the Proof of Authority consensus algorithm.
Let denote headerBody. The block ID (delta.Bytes32) can be computed as:
where is the block number stored as a uint32 and the operation that discards the first four bytes.

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