Questions tagged [block-header]

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What is the beneficiary in block header?

There is the data called "beneficiary" in block header. What is this data?
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Can contracts access the block header extraData field?

The yellow paper (see section 4.4) defines an extraData header field as follows: An arbitrary byte array containing data relevant to this block. This must be 32 bytes or fewer Can contracts natively read this extraData?
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