{"id":636084,"date":"2026-07-29T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=834772"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:30:08","slug":"what-happens-when-two-miners-find-a-block-at-the-same-second-inside-an-orphan-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/what-happens-when-two-miners-find-a-block-at-the-same-second-inside-an-orphan-race\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When Two Miners Find a Block at the Same Second? Inside an Orphan Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/what-happens-when-two-miners-find-a-block-at-the-same-second-inside-an-orphan-race-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Running race image\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>On March 24, 2026, Antpool mined block 941,881 at 15:49:35 UTC while Foundry USA mined its own, completely different version of block 941,881 just 12 seconds later, splitting Bitcoin&#8217;s blockchain into two competing versions of history until one pool mined six blocks in a row to force a resolution. Why Two Miners Can &#8216;Win&#8217; at [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2026, Antpool mined block 941,881 at 15:49:35 UTC while Foundry USA mined its own, completely different version of block 941,881 just 12 seconds later, splitting Bitcoin&#8217;s blockchain into two competing versions of history until one pool mined six blocks in a row to force a resolution. Why Two Miners Can &#8216;Win&#8217; at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}