cannot decode block 0 to find the output address. I can decode much higher blocks. what am i missing?

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Can you please decode block 0 output transaction manually showing me how to get the output address namely: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

How are you trying to decode it? There isn't anything special about block 0, you can decode it like any other block. — Andrew Chow, Nov 15, 2020 at 20:07
I could not find the address of the output transaction. can you show me how you get to the address (in my original post) — Walid Tabar, Nov 15, 2020 at 22:26

Walid Tabar · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-15 22:45:33Z

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Never mind I figured out my mistake. Earlier bitcoin blocks stored the public key in the signature instead of its hash. Thank you anyway.

answered Nov 15, 2020 at 22:45

Walid Tabar

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Note that this depends on your definition of "address". These days an address is a way of representing a specific output script, and under that definition the genesis block's coinbase transaction's output simply has no address. The 1... address shown in many explorers is historical, from a time when addresses were just a "key identifier".
– Pieter Wuille
Nov 16, 2020 at 23:04

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