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I'm trying to clone the Blackcoin sourcecode just for the hell of it but I can't seem to generate a genesis block. I can do it on normal coins, but not here. The Blackcoin developers seem to have shifted a lot of code into weird places.

For example, all of the coins major parameters are in chainparams.cpp. However, there is no code in the link above or in main.cpp to create a genesis block.

How do I make a genesis block for this coin?

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  • I'd love to know myself but without being versed in C++ it's very difficult I gather. The other issue is the information is not shared openly in my experience. Why? Because of the influx of scams (Altcoin clones were released at the rate of 4-5 daily in July 2014; many were outright scams, including DafuqCoin, which was a Trojan, USBcoin, and Cachecoin, which just saw the developers charged) then there's the algorithms; Keep in mind Blackcoin is proof of stake and IIRC doesn't use sha256. I wish I could add more.
    – Wizard Of Ozzie
    Dec 19, 2014 at 3:00
  • I am stuck here too. Have you find solution? Thx.
    – creator
    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:58

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They just removed the gen-generation part from the sources as it's not needed after the genesis being generated and already implemented (hardcoded) into the sources.

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  • Hi. Then where is working code for newest source?
    – creator
    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:58

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