March 2018
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Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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The genesis block
The genesis block varies slightly from normal blocks due to the data it contains and the way it has been created. It contains 15 items that are described here.
From https://etherscan.io/, the actual version is shown as follows:
|
Element |
Description |
|
Timestamp |
(Jul-30-2015 03:26:13 PM +UTC) |
|
Transactions |
8893 transactions and 0 contract internal transactions in this block |
|
Hash |
0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3 |
|
Parent hash |
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 |
|
SHA3 uncles |
0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347 |
|
Mined by |
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 IN 15 secs |
|
Difficulty |
17,179,869,184 ... |