Orphan Block Occurs at Bitcoin Block 963,853

At Bitcoin (BTC) block height 963,853, two valid candidate blocks were observed simultaneously, one of which was processed as an orphan block. According to Galaxy Research, at 11:35 PM KST on the 24th, the Bitcoin Core v29 node detected two candidate blocks at this height, both confirmed to be mined by SpiderPool. The two blocks had the same cumulative work, resulting in a temporary existence of candidate chains at the same height on the network. About 27 minutes later, F2Pool added block 963,854 on one of the candidate chains, leading to the chain with the subsequent block becoming the main chain, while the other block was treated as an orphan block. An orphan block refers to a valid block that was not included in the final ledger due to being outcompeted in the longer chain race. This case illustrates a temporary branching phenomenon that can occur during the mining process, where the stacking of subsequent blocks on either candidate block influenced the final record more than the validity of the two candidate blocks themselves.

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