UNDERSTANDING GENESIS BLOCK IN CRYPTOCURRENCY
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The term "Genesis" typically refers to a thing's birth or genesis.
In terms of religion, Genesis is frequently referred to as God's initial act of creation.
In reality, Genesis is referred to as the first book of the Bible by the old testament encyclopedia Britannica. Everything here revolves on the start of something.
The term "genesis" has special significance in the cryptosphere.
The first block of a cryptocurrency to ever be mined is known as the genesis block.
A blockchain is typically composed of a number of blocks that are used to store transactions that take place on the network.
With no preceding hash, the genesis block is the Adam of all blocks and is typically referred to as block 0 on the blockchain, however some blockchains show it as block 1.
Until the blockchain's sequence is complete, the blocks are typically added one on top of the other, with the genesis block serving as its basis.
The Genesis block on the blockchain of Bitcoin serves as a model for future blocks to be created using the PoW algorithm.
Since the government once controlled the whole financial system, a single entity was in charge of our money.
Then, in 2008, there was a financial crisis, which prompted the invention of Bitcoin.
Block 0 of the Bitcoin genesis block was created on January 3rd, 2009, thanks to a transaction performed by the anonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
When Bitcoin was first introduced in 2008, mining it was considerably simpler than it is now, and the block reward was larger.
While the current bitcoin block reward is 6.25 BTC, the block reward for the genesis block was 50 BTC.
Coincidentally, the first bitcoin transaction was the one that resulted in the creation of the genesis block.
The first 50 BTC transaction's spending transaction was rejected because the system database could not locate it.
Therefore, since the genesis block transaction cannot be spent, we can draw the conclusion that it cannot be regarded as a legitimate transaction.
The hash for the Bitcoin genesis block is displayed below:
000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
The 50 Btc as seen above is sent to a null address and for that it can never be spent.
- The receipt address
1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
You can see that more than 50 BTC were sent into the wallet by looking at the wallet address on the block explorer, as it is displayed above.
There are now 3,351 transactions totaling 68.54169736 BTC as of the time this post was created.
You'll also see that the coins transferred to that address have not yet been spent and are still inaccessible.
Because several Bitcoin aficionados sent some random Bitcoin to that address as a form of gratitude to Satoshi Nakamoto, the total amount of Bitcoin in that address exceeds 50.
A method of saying "thank you" for the fantastic job he performed in developing Bitcoin.
Millions of people's lives have been positively impacted by Satoshi Nakamoto, more so than any other person.
After block 0 was mined, strange things happened. Instead of block 1 being mined in the usual 10 minutes, it took 6 days.
Many think Nakamoto did this on purpose to mirror the story of the world being created in six days, while others think it was to see if the new technology had any bugs.
It is true that there are many mysteries surrounding the Bitcoin genesis block. Just the fact that the block was created by an anonymous miner and that its rewards are unusable is a lot to take in.
Additionally, Nakamoto placed a covert message in the coinbase transaction of the cryptocurrency's genesis block.
A block that is lit to pay its miner occurs to have a coinbase transaction as its genesis transaction.
On this same page, we will see the Hex signscript incripted below.
- The Hex signscript
5468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73
Seeing that the Hex is incripted, let's convert it into a readable text using an online converter
Although there was no obvious interpretation provided by this statement, many bitcoin enthusiasts came to the conclusion that it was meant to emphasize bitcoin's ultimate goal—to outperform the failing banking system.
The statement actually matched the title of an article that was released the day the genesis block was mined.
The Bitcoin genesis block has many series of significance and importance and among many, some of them are explain below.
- Birth of cryptocurrencies
As the first cryptocurrency ever developed, Bitcoin is frequently referred to as the grandfather of all cryptocurrencies.
Other cryptocurrencies were developed as a result of bitcoin's popularity.
- Birth of blockchain technology
The invention of Bitcoin also marks the first usage of blockchain technology, which has remained dormant for a while.
The invention of Bitcoin aided in expanding the potential uses of blockchain technology.
For instance, the audius platform introduced blockchain technology to the music industry. The socios platform introduced blockchain technology to the sports industry.
Unlike the bitcoin genesis block, the Ethereum genesis block was anticipated.
The Ethereum blockchain project was proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterlin, a 19-year-old programmer.
There was an ether presale and the release of a few prototypes before to the official launch of Ethereum.
Olympic, the final prototype, was made available in May 2014 with a 25000 ether prize for users to put the blockchain through its paces.
Then, on July 30th, 2015, Frontier [Ethereum 1.0] was declared to be the official version of the blockchain.
There have been a number of updates to the Ethereum blockchain since its debut, but we won't get into that today.
Every cryptocurrency has a genesis block, which serves as the basis for all subsequent blocks on the blockchain.
The cryptocurrency we use, Steem, also has a genesis block.
Block 1 is the original Steem block, and it was created on March 24th, 2016.
Later, we'll go into more detail regarding the Steem Genesis Block, but for now, let's find it on Steemworld.
To find the Steem genesis block details, first log into steemworld.org and click on block explorer.
Now that we have located the block explorer, we will enter thd genesis block number which is block 1. Prior to that, we will first see the total block number of Steem which is at 61 million.
Everything on earth has a beginning, and the genesis block is the beginning of a blockchain.
The genesis block serves as the blockchain's first block.
The genesis block of bitcoin is the most important block since it not only establishes the structure of the bitcoin blockchain but also lays the groundwork for blockchain technology in general.
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