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Andrew Stone
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The block header appears in several P2P messages. It's serialization format is as follows:
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| 4 bytes | 32 bytes | 32 bytes | 4 bytes | 4 bytes | 4 bytes
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|----|---------------|-----------|------------|---------|------
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| version | hash of previous block | hash of merkle root | block time in epoch seconds | difficulty in "bits" format | nonce |