user1611: ASICMiner includes hex(Mined By ASICMiner) in the coinbase.
I'd like to generate weekly statistics that include ASICMiner' solo-mining efforts, but I don't want to have to rely on blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com. Is there a way to use bitcoind commands to return the coinbase for a block of given height (or hash)?

user141: I think this is best answered by an example. Let's find the coinbase from a block on the Bitcoin testnet.
First we'll get the hash for a block we want to look at. We'll have a look at the (as I write this) latest block:
> bitcoind getblockcount
81626
> bitcoind getblockhash 81626
0000000000834f3933b50577b854692ed246728a17d10006ced1283a3fd8074c

Now we need to find the hash of the generation transaction from that block. It's always the first one listed. In this example there is only 1 transaction.
> bitcoind getblock 0000000000834f3933b50577b854692ed246728a17d10006ced1283a3fd8074c
[...]
    "tx" : [
        "f1fdeb7ced28f697c97b6a3ed7cc1946e1fc5e062ad8c17d05c88b1767b91b2a"
    ],
[...]

And now we can grab the coinbase from the transaction. The getrawtransaction command's second parameter can be set to 1 to give us individual pieces of the transaction so we can easily find the coinbase. Alternatively we could leave that out and it would give us a single binary blob to navigate ourselves.
> bitcoind getrawtransaction f1fdeb7ced28f697c97b6a3ed7cc1946e1fc5e062ad8c17d05c88b1767b91b2a 1
[...]
"coinbase" : "03da3e012cfabe6d6d18c47c97379852a93158528bb709355a0d38d05fedf072b610bb57442aad4e710400000000000000062f503253482f",
[...]

And there's the coinbase. Now we can check whether it contains pieces of ASCII text or whatever else we want to do with it.

1611: <p>ASICMiner includes hex(Mined By ASICMiner) in the coinbase.</p>

<p>I'd like to generate weekly statistics that include ASICMiner' solo-mining efforts, but I don't want to have to rely on blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com. Is there a way to use bitcoind commands to return the coinbase for a block of given height (or hash)?</p>
 141: <p>I think this is best answered by an example. Let's find the coinbase from a block on the Bitcoin testnet.</p>

<p>First we'll get the hash for a block we want to look at. We'll have a look at the (as I write this) latest block:</p>

<pre><code>&gt; bitcoind getblockcount
81626
&gt; bitcoind getblockhash 81626
0000000000834f3933b50577b854692ed246728a17d10006ced1283a3fd8074c
</code></pre>

<p>Now we need to find the hash of the generation transaction from that block. It's always the first one listed. In this example there is only 1 transaction.</p>

<pre><code>&gt; bitcoind getblock 0000000000834f3933b50577b854692ed246728a17d10006ced1283a3fd8074c
[...]
    "tx" : [
        "f1fdeb7ced28f697c97b6a3ed7cc1946e1fc5e062ad8c17d05c88b1767b91b2a"
    ],
[...]
</code></pre>

<p>And now we can grab the coinbase from the transaction. The getrawtransaction command's second parameter can be set to 1 to give us individual pieces of the transaction so we can easily find the coinbase. Alternatively we could leave that out and it would give us a single binary blob to navigate ourselves.</p>

<pre><code>&gt; bitcoind getrawtransaction f1fdeb7ced28f697c97b6a3ed7cc1946e1fc5e062ad8c17d05c88b1767b91b2a 1
[...]
"coinbase" : "03da3e012cfabe6d6d18c47c97379852a93158528bb709355a0d38d05fedf072b610bb57442aad4e710400000000000000062f503253482f",
[...]
</code></pre>

<p>And there's the coinbase. Now we can check whether it contains pieces of ASCII text or whatever else we want to do with it.</p>
