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first block of monero that was ever mined

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Is the Monero genesis block reward spendable?

Is the Monero genesis block reward spendable? The 50 BTC in the Bitcoin genesis block can never be spent. Are the 17.592186 XMR from the Monero genesis block capable of being spent? If they cannot be spent, would transactions from that block…
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How can I create a new Monero genesis block?

Does anyone know how Monero's genesis block was created (and how I can generate a new one)? Background information: I want to fork Monero for use as part of a school assignment (there are other things involved but this would be the core). It's…
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Is there any message in Monero's genesis block like there is in Bitcoin's?

As the title says, what data was used to seed Monero's genesis block?
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What's the difference between block height and block number?

With the recent hard-fork, I was wondering about the difference between block height and block number? E.g. I am fairly sure the genesis block is block number 0. After that block, but before the next one, was the block height 1? And a follow-up…
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Message "Ours and foreign blockchain have only genesis block in common... o.O"

When I'm syncing the blockchain for the fist time, I have this error message 8 times 2016-Sep-26 19:58:50.608535 [P2P3]ERROR /tmp/monero/src/monero-0.10.0/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp:1835 Ours and foreign blockchain have only genesis block…
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Genesis transaction explanation?

If we decrypt the actual genesis of the XMR, we can get 2 parts : the pubkey : 9b2e4c0281c0b02e7c53291a94d1d0cbff8883f8024f5142ee494ffbbd088071 the tx : 7767aafcde9be00dcfd098715ebcf7f410daebc582fda69d24a28e9d0bc890d1 So I tried to find this on an…
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Creating a genesis block, but it doesnt work, for an entire day

Now its late at night, i am drunk and angry. I cant create a new genesis block. I know that this has been asked at least twice before, but the answeres are more cryptic than predictions from my local palmreader. "Go here and screw around with the…
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Steps to Fork Monero

I am a newbie to Monero development. I am trying to understand what steps I would need to take to to Fork Monero, make some changes to number of coins etc and create a wallet. Can anyone outline the steps?
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Monero Genesis transaction & nonce

I've seen the monero genesis-tx breakdown version 01 unlock time (varint, height, 60 here) 3c vin length (value in) 01 vin #1 (of 1) type (gen, 0xff) ff height for gen input 00 vout length (value out) 01 output #1 (of 1) amount (17592186044415 as…
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How can I get my own genesis tx to use in my monero fork?

I have been searching for ever on how to get my own genesis tx for a monero fork. Everything I have tried has not work. I have tried using a cryptonote currency to generate a genesis tx then replacing the values the same everywhere. I have also…
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How to generate a new genesis tx?

I did a Monero fork and i added to it a code to generate for me a new genesis tx with the knowed command --print-genesis-tx and it works great at start, it generates something like this…
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Monero Genesis transaction & nonce - clarification

This is a case of explain like i'm five. I pretty much got the idea, thanks to knaccc in answer Monero Genesis transaction & nonce. But just to be clear. If I wanted to generate a new "empty" monero blockchain, I should generate a new wallet, and…
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error first running new monero fork build

I built a new Monero Fork. Trying to run it for the first time and getting errors: 2018-07-05 10:09:30.989 7612 ERROR cn src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp:167 Failed to parse transaction from blob 2018-07-05 …
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How to mine monero genesis block reward (monero fork)

When i start mining it start from height 1 not height 0.
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Monero Fork (Genesis Block)

I'm performing a Monero (XMR) fork, but I'm not sure how to generate a genesis block. Could you help me? Investigate a little and talk about a print parameter in the deamon, but that parameter no longer exists. I am using version 0.11 of monero.…
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