View the "pending" Block

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∟64-Bit "geth" for Private Ethereum Network

∟View the "pending" Block

This section describes how to view the 'pending' block.

After running the 'geth' miner for more than a hour, I still don't see any new blocks generated.

Let's check to see if there any "pending" blocks waiting to be "mined":

> eth.getBlock("pending")
{
  difficulty: 17171480576,
  extraData: "0xd983010801846765746887676f312e392e328777696e646f7773",
  gasLimit: 5003,
  gasUsed: 0,
  hash: null,
  logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...",
  miner: null,
  mixHash: 
     "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  nonce: null,
  number: 1,
  parentHash: 
     "0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3",
  receiptsRoot: 
     "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  sha3Uncles: 
     "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
  size: 538,
  stateRoot: 
     "0x04bd63d0bb2ec7ce24895b0665495ea9e77e8dcc5b50d86c6e4e598e293c2c79",
  time: 1520195159,
  totalDifficulty: 0,
  transactions: [],
  transactionsRoot: 
     "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
  uncles: []
}