How to verify the manually block signature?

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Hi,

According to this: https://www.multichain.com/qa/8071/about-block-signature?show=8071#q8071 the block signature proves the identity of each block's miner. I assume that this signature is verified by succeeding confirmations?

How would we go about verifying the signature manually? We want to demonstrate to a client that that the signature can be used to prove who signed a block.

Thanks
asked Jun 4, 2018 by anonymous

1 Answer

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The signature on each block stands alone, and doesn't require subsequent blocks in order to verify it. You can find a small amount of technical information on this here:

https://www.multichain.com/developers/mining-block-signatures/

But really, you can trust the miner field in the output for getblock or listblocks, since this is based on each node's independent verification of the miner signature.

answered Jun 5, 2018 by MultiChain
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