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Following this guide, I'm trying to learn how to mine a genesis block, not to launch another altcoin or anything, blockchain databases are going to be important and I want to be ahead of the curve.

I'm using this script and working with the litecoin source. I have only changed the following:

find LoadBlockIndex() function, inside, change:
    - paraphrase (pszTimestamp) to any recent news phase.
    - get the latest unix time (do a google), and put in block.nTime.
    - set any nNonce (doesn't really matter)
you can change the time/nonce for testnet too, if you want to use it.

Those variables are now found in chainparams.cpp and I didn't change the testnet time/nonce.

After compiling when I try to run litecoind I get the following error:

litecoind: chainparams.cpp:220: CTestNetParams::CTestNetParams(): Assertion `hashGenesisBlock == uint256("0xf5ae71e26c74beacc88382716aced69cddf3dffff24f384e1808905e0188f68f")' failed.
Aborted

If anyone can help or point me in the direction of some modern documentation I'd me most grateful :)

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  • If you change the genesis block you have to change the hash check assertion, because the hash will have changed.
    – morsecoder
    Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 14:58
  • Related: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/34107/…. This question seems to have better answers, so maybe the linked question should be marked as a duplicate of this.
    – morsecoder
    Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 14:58
  • Thanks @StephenM347 but how do I calculate what the 'hash check assertion' should be?
    – derrend
    Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 20:30
  • Also there are no answers in the link you provided.
    – derrend
    Commented Mar 5, 2016 at 20:36
  • After this, you maybe suffer ReadBlockFromDisk: Errors in block header at CBlockDiskPos(, have you?
    – creator
    Commented Mar 2, 2018 at 14:06

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You have to add smth like this genesis.nNonce = 353314; hashGenesisBlock = genesis.GetHash();

LogPrintf("Display genesis hash so we can input it below %s\n", hashGenesisBlock.ToString().c_str());

assert(hashGenesisBlock == uint256("0xe133d1d3f584f1c3f561e7d0606fa87dabb869325a979c2a82e2f3943c0e3370")); vFixedSeeds.clear();

then after ./coind in debug.log you can get genesis hash

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