Refers to the very first block of a new blockchain based cryptocurrency.
Questions tagged [genesis-block]
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Is the timestamp in the genesis block relevant?
Bitcoin's genesis block contains this text published in The Times on January 3rd, 2009:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
According to the Bitcoin Wiki, this guarantees that the block was only created after this…
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How did the first 50 Bitcoins come into being?
How was the Bitcoin system initialized? Can one start the system with only a single node (computer)? Please explain it in plain English. Thanks, guys.
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How we decode output address from Bitcoin genesis transaction
Accordingly to blockchain.info, the first bitcoin transaction ever spends 50 BTC to the address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.
The pubkey script of that transaction…
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How were the first 169 blocks mined if no transactions occured before block 170?
My guess is that there is that you are able to leave the transaction parameter empty, but I have not been able to find confirmation.
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Different hash while creating genesis block
I've created a genesis block following this instructions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181981.0
Using this data:
./genesis…
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Where is the "New Genesis Hash Generator" code in newest Bitcoin source code?
I am trying to generate my own genesis hash by modifying some hardcoded parameter in main.cpp.
It worked in previous version of Bitcoin, but now it seems that the "Genesis Generator" has been removed.
Where is the "New Genesis Hash Generator" code…
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Why explorers show difference balance for genesis block?
When I check balance for the address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa - different sources show different results.
66.92700504…
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how to transfer genesis block reward for blackcoin?
So my genesis block has a reward setup but I want to send it to my wallet. can you please tell me how? I am using black coin
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Failed of genesis!
fruitd: chainparams.cpp:207: CMainParams::CMainParams(): Assertion `consensus.hashGenesisBlock == uint256S("0x000000004421dbf94542db9b40e4bc60da8ce6b793f00924cadf5677d364a6a1")' failed.
Aborted
used fork…
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are there Happy Hours?
after Genesis of Bitcoin, ie creating block#0, every wallet owner has an empty wallet, by the way there is nothing to mine. So how the block chain process can be initiated?
Are there Happy Hours and some lucky people are elected so that they can…
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