Timeline for Why can’t the genesis block coinbase be spent?
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| Nov 21, 2014 at 19:49 | comment | added | morsecoder |
(Even when -txindex=1 is enabled)
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| Nov 21, 2014 at 19:22 | comment | added | morsecoder |
We know it's not in the database because if you do getrawtransaction 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b via RPC calls it returns an error, even though you can go to a block explorer (like here) and see that this is the genesis block coinbase transaction.
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 21:25 | vote | accept | Nick ODell | ||
| Nov 20, 2013 at 12:23 | comment | added | user5477 | How do we know of it if it's not in the database? | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 6:18 | comment | added | Charles Hoskinson | How would you change it to allow it to be spent? Add this to the hardfork list | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 6:08 | history | answered | Charles Hoskinson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |