Saturday, April 24, 2021

Fork warning in bitcoin node log

Hi all, I just wanted to see if anyone running a bitcoin node also just reported some weird errors in the event log.

Mine shows that at 13:20:36 z I received the following error :

ContextualCheckBlockHeader: forked chain older than last checkpoint (height 9796)

Then same timestamp but the following error:

AcceptBlockHeader: Consensus: xxxxx , bad-fork-prior-to-checkpoint

Anyway I've never noticed an error like that before and if it's saying it's just now detecting a fork from blockheight 9796 while were on block 680xxx then this seems very concerning. I'm hoping that I'm just misunderstanding the message or that somehow my node is malfunctioning but wanted to run by the community and see if your log also shows this and if so what you thoughts on it are. Thanks.


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