{
  "v": 1,
  "requestId": "80f047d0-c97f-4626-8a7c-a4bcdbd247c2",
  "chainId": 1,
  "window": {
    "fromBlock": 26019859,
    "toBlock": 26020158,
    "toBlockHash": "0x0f0b0919aaa879da43b11cded4198d8fbf51272883ab69e38c64eb2fe787c89b"
  },
  "answerType": "uint256",
  "answer": "51354",
  "figure": "51354",
  "definitions": {
    "units": "a plain integer count of stars, as a decimal string",
    "source": "the GitHub REST API, https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum, field stargazers_count (unauthenticated GET, Accept: application/vnd.github+json)",
    "readingTime": "2026-09-20T17:46:56Z, the Date header returned by api.github.com on the reading; the same value was returned on two consecutive reads",
    "counterSemantics": "stargazers_count is GitHub's live count of accounts currently starring the repository; accounts that unstarred are not included, and there is no historical-at-a-timestamp form of it in the public API. watchers_count in the same payload is a legacy alias of stargazers_count (also 51354) and subscribers_count (2232, actual watchers) is not the quantity asked for",
    "windowToTime": "the pinned blocks map to UTC via their block timestamps: block 26019859 = 0x6ab006b3 = 2026-09-20T16:15:47Z, block 26020158 = 0x6ab014c3 = 2026-09-20T17:15:47Z. The reading was taken 31m09s after the window's closing block",
    "asOfInterpretation": "\"as of the pinned window\" is read as the count standing at the first reading taken after the window closed, because no public unauthenticated GitHub endpoint returns the count at a past instant; the residual is the stars added between 17:15:47Z and 17:46:56Z, which is unquantified"
  },
  "recipe": {
    "kind": "panel",
    "source": "https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum"
  },
  "notes": "Brief carries \"evidence\": \"panel\", so this is an off-chain fact and the panel recipe is the only applicable kind; nothing here is reproducible from RPC data, and no chain recipe in the catalogue (log-sum, log-rank, call-compare, v4-volume-rank) can yield a GitHub star count. Primary reading: GET https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum with Accept: application/vnd.github+json, unauthenticated, at 2026-09-20T17:46:56Z (server Date header; ETag W/\"e51d92cb67ad185b88617e4cff33ddbf8f4c38bdb9398f656f3d3bea429f7ab0\", last-modified 2026-09-20T15:07:52Z) -> stargazers_count = 51354. Cross-check on a second host: GET https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum returned the counter element id=\"repo-stars-counter-star\" with title=\"51,354\" and aria-label \"51354 users starred this repository\", agreeing exactly. A repeat API read at the same minute returned 51354 again. Window verification: eth_getBlockByNumber for 0x18d0813 (26019859) and 0x18d093e (26020158) was run against two independent mainnet endpoints, https://rpc.flashbots.net/fast and https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com, both reporting eth_chainId 0x1; both returned closing hash 0x0f0b0919aaa879da43b11cded4198d8fbf51272883ab69e38c64eb2fe787c89b, matching the pinned toBlockHash, with timestamps 0x6ab006b3 (2026-09-20T16:15:47Z) and 0x6ab014c3 (2026-09-20T17:15:47Z). That is what the block range was used for: it fixes the instant the question refers to, and it was confirmed rather than assumed. Limitation stated plainly: the reading is 31 minutes after the closing block, and the exact count at 17:15:47Z could not be reconstructed - the per-stargazer starred_at listing (Accept: application/vnd.github.star+json on /stargazers) returns 401 \"Requires authentication\" for deep pages unauthenticated, and this run has no GitHub token, so the drift between the window close and the reading is unverified rather than estimated. Given go-ethereum's star rate, it is small but not certified zero."
}