Claims ledger / Bitcoin
The Counterparty burn window ran for 5,000 blocks, ending on 3 February 2014.
contradicted
The client constants specify heights 278,310 and 283,810, a difference of 5,500. The count of included blocks additionally depends on boundary inclusion; a 5,000-block claim is inconsistent with these constants.
- Attribution
- attributed-paraphrase
- Publisher
- Counterparty documentation
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- Read the attributed source
- Original excerpt
- 5,000 Bitcoin blocks). During this period, anyone was
Verification record
Parsed mainnet constants independently of catalogue prose.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.720Z · External expert review not claimed.
| Independent check | Observed | Expected |
|---|---|---|
| height difference | 5500 | 5500 |
Inspect source retrievals
- https://docs.counterparty.io/docs/basics/what-is-xcp/
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:16.575Z · SHA-256 c94793f92404780dbdd6c3b2e0bd4d7ee728646abea4e0b4a7dcd87e6803dab2 - https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-core/blob/master/counterparty-core/counterpartycore/lib/config.py
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:16.882Z · SHA-256 9695d27ec21e43898d720b863988fc3eb553f9c79ce1793f7c2fe3b2b16352d3 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-core/master/counterparty-core/counterpartycore/lib/messages/data/mainnet_burns.csv
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:17.298Z · SHA-256 5358241e5074a25c62b57f6d38ae93cb502d53ba926f8719ded9a2672d4e9057
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The constants in config.py give blocks 278,310 to 283,810, which is 5,500 blocks, with the closing block mined on 2 February 2014 at 19:58:28 UTC. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | contradicted | The client constants specify heights 278,310 and 283,810, a difference of 5,500. The count of included blocks additionally depends on boundary inclusion; a 5,000-block claim is inconsistent with these constants. |
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