Litecoin.watch frozen public-chain audit, 2026-10-02-v1
Original headers read 2 October 2026 UTC from our pruned Litecoin Core 0.21.5.8 node.
Recent decoded window: heights 3,188,200 through 3,188,249, 50 consecutive blocks.
Early header window: 0 through 1,000 inclusive. Headers are miner-declared times,
not arrival measurements, a launch-time calendar or proof of miner identities.
The recent window was explicitly rechecked by height after capture.

Run: python analyze.py.txt .
Python 3.10+, standard library only. Compare the returned object with results.json.
input-sha256.json validates immutable inputs before any calculations.
CSV files are readable exports of the corresponding JSON inputs/results.

Transaction metric: integer litoshis summed across serialized transparent vout.
Keep coinbase and witness_mweb_hogaddr rows in raw input, exclude both from the
ordinary-output ranking. The ten leading naive non-coinbase totals all include
a HogEx output, not ten identifiable whale payments. Sum includes change and
self-transfers. It is neither network fees nor a unique amount paid to someone.
MWEB confidential amounts and participant identity are not reconstructed.
hogaddr_litoshis selects only the witness_mweb_hogaddr output; the total of
all HogEx outputs may also contain public peg-outs and is a different number.
Kernel counts are protocol observations, not a count of merchant invoices.

Early output checks: genesis omitted. At a single unchanged tip, gettxout(txid,0,
false) was queried for heights 1..1000 with exactly one transaction, where the
merkle root equals the coinbase txid. Heights 448 and 458 had two transactions
and were omitted because their coinbase ID cannot be recovered from the header.
Only output zero is checked. Null means absent from the node's chain UTXO view.
No global UTXO age distribution, owner clustering or lost-key estimate is made.
A future node lookup can differ; frozen input reproduces this dated observation.

Capture metadata records UTC Unix seconds, node version, hashes and boundaries.
Hashes validate file identity, not independent correctness of the node.
The bounded read used no whole-UTXO scan and no writes to the node or observer.
Code and editorial drafting were AI-assisted. Responsible editor: Jaroslaw Wasinski.
No external independent reviewer or all-history completeness is claimed.
Core primary implementation: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/tree/v0.21.5.8
Corrections: https://litecoin.watch/corrections/