Topic: A mistery hidden in the Genesis Block - page 2. (Read 22862 times)
Sergio, if you are still around, have you investigated this anymore and if so what are your findings?
I think everyone can safely assume that he had access to a larger multiprocessor machine. His rationale might have been that the first block should be a bit "harder" than the consecutive ones. That's all.
Just cross your fingers , maybe it will bring good luck.
I suggested that perhaps he just left it running, saving the best result, while he did the final preparation for the release.
Didn't he need to mine both block 0 and block 1? And unless he knew the Times headline before it was printed, that means he mined 2 blocks within 6 days, right? Isn't that the point of the headline, to prove that he hadn't premined more than that?
He wanted the headline in the genesis. He needed a few days to patch and run the client for a strong POW on it, then deleted the superfluous
code and started over with block 1,2...
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RAmen!
Here is info on that address. Looks like Satoshi was sending satoshis.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
sent my sacrificial Satoshi
good luck and or something.
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Here is info on that address. Looks like Satoshi was sending satoshis.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
sent my sacrificial Satoshi
good luck and or something.
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..."By the seventh day Satoshi had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested his miner from all his work. And Satoshi blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it his miner rested [or ceased] from all the work of creating that he had done." (Bitcoin 2:2-3)
>>> d=int("00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",16)
>>> g=int("000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",16)
>>> print (float(d)/float(g))
2536.42629845
The difficulty equivalent of the genesis hash is 2536.42629845
Looking up old hashing results:
AMD Phenom II X4 3GHz
Bitcoin Version 0.3 (Win 32-bit)
4 cores - 2300 khash/s
Difficulty: 2536.4263
Hash Rate: 2.30
Time to generate one block ~54.8 days
The genesis hasher could have been looking for just > difficulty 1, and it spit this lucky hash out, so Satoshi used it to show his awesomeness. He could have been changing the headline every day looking for a
Interesting, thanks Sergio.
Knowing how Satoshi operated it was unlikely to be a genuinely separate application. More likely it was just a hacked up version of the app. He wasn't big into modularity or internal APIs.
Knowing how Satoshi operated it was unlikely to be a genuinely separate application. More likely it was just a hacked up version of the app. He wasn't big into modularity or internal APIs.
I suggested that perhaps he just left it running, saving the best result, while he did the final preparation for the release.
Didn't he need to mine both block 0 and block 1? And unless he knew the Times headline before it was printed, that means he mined 2 blocks within 6 days, right? Isn't that the point of the headline, to prove that he hadn't premined more than that?
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I would really appreciate if my question on the genesis block is also answered https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1782000
I basically ask in the thread how it's made, and how one could also create a genesis block from scratch.
I basically ask in the thread how it's made, and how one could also create a genesis block from scratch.
wow, this makes an interesting story. SDL always comes up with all kinds of in-depth bitcoin knowledge.
that makes me think -> SDL==SN
that makes me think -> SDL==SN
Isn't time a variable of the block header to be hashed? If yes, after 2^32 calculation the header changes, and a new round of nonces makes sense.
Other option: after an unsuccess round, he could try a transaction to a different address, so the header also changed.
Other option: after an unsuccess round, he could try a transaction to a different address, so the header also changed.
Since the genesis block was generated with some external code it may well have been rolling the public key... Even with valid ones— though the output of block 0 is not spendable in any case.
I was aware of the suspiciously high difficulty... and when Bluematt last brought it up in #bitcoin-dev I suggested that perhaps he just left it running, saving the best result, while he did the final preparation for the release.
I was aware of the suspiciously high difficulty... and when Bluematt last brought it up in #bitcoin-dev I suggested that perhaps he just left it running, saving the best result, while he did the final preparation for the release.
"Let there be Bitcoin!
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By the seventh day Satoshi had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work."
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By the seventh day Satoshi had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work."
"Genesis Block" makes a great title for such a novel.
Could have computed that hash on a powerful computer, maybe in his University Campus, or rented computers in Amazon EC2. But why such a difficulty?
Could have computed that hash on a powerful computer, maybe in his University Campus, or rented computers in Amazon EC2. But why such a difficulty?
Amusing write-up! maybe you should write a mystery novel a la Dan Brown 
Here is info on that address. Looks like Satoshi was sending satoshis.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Wow, people are paying homage to Satoshi by sending him bitcoins. Bitcoin is now a religion.
Sounds interesting. Can you explain for non-techies? For example, perhaps he performed this procedure multiple times.
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