Coinbase transactions with more than 2 outputs?

[wsmithston]

Can someone explain why some blocks have coinbase transactions with over 50 or so outputs?

https://explorer.dash.org/block/000000000000c6db94ca4497e9c29eb2548a55ab90674b17719c1cf013d359bc
https://explorer.dash.org/block/00000000000089ab868849c05abba2fcf0547c77bd98f71387fabd3ddb8f3efc

I presume it has something to do with the budget system? Where is the miner's reward in these blocks?

 

[UdjinM6]

These blocks were mined by p2pool and each output is a payout from the pool to a miner (except the n-2 output - that is a payment to a masternode).

 

[wsmithston]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of decentralized mining pools. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

 

[nmarley]

These blocks were mined by p2pool and each output is a payout from the pool to a miner (except the n-2 output - that is a payment to a masternode).

Ah! Ok, thanks. Do you know why the 'N' transaction is 0/Null data? e.g.:

{
"value" : 0.00000000,
"n" : 62,
"scriptPubKey" : {
"asm" : "OP_RETURN bf6f2d45ef59e69dff1471ad626b681d9fe2206c3752b0a14afde8a35ac52a4e000000000b000000",
"hex" : "6a28bf6f2d45ef59e69dff1471ad626b681d9fe2206c3752b0a14afde8a35ac52a4e000000000b000000",
"type" : "nulldata"
}
}

Is it just one of those p2pool anomalies?

 

[UdjinM6]

Ah! Ok, thanks. Do you know why the 'N' transaction is 0/Null data? e.g.:

{
"value" : 0.00000000,
"n" : 62,
"scriptPubKey" : {
"asm" : "OP_RETURN bf6f2d45ef59e69dff1471ad626b681d9fe2206c3752b0a14afde8a35ac52a4e000000000b000000",
"hex" : "6a28bf6f2d45ef59e69dff1471ad626b681d9fe2206c3752b0a14afde8a35ac52a4e000000000b000000",
"type" : "nulldata"
}
}

Is it just one of those p2pool anomalies?

That's not "anomalies" it's just the way p2pool works, it uses op_return for some internal logic iirc.