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I have built the bitcoin source code with a new pszTimestamp, hashGenesisBlock and hashMerkleRoot

The code builds fine and does not run into any assert problems when validating these hashes on [line 128 and line 129 of chainparams.cpp]. (Great)

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When I run bitcoin-qt I run into the error below:

Error: Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?

Potential Cause:

Is the reason I am encountering this error because I have not yet mined the genesis block? If so how do I do that? It seems that in the bitcoin code there is nothing about mining the genesis block. I have heard rumours that this functionality was removed and that I will have to download a separate program for this step. Please confirm.

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  • I met same problem. I met CBlockDiskPos(nFile=0, nPos=8) error or AcceptBlock: high-hash, proof of work failed (code 16) error. Have you solved? Any updates?
    – creator
    Mar 1, 2018 at 7:42

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Thant is correct. You have to mine the genesis block first separately if you are compiling the most recent bitcoin codebase.

Checkout : https://github.com/vlamer/genesis-block-generator

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  • Is it still work with newest litecoin source? (0.15.1)
    – creator
    Mar 1, 2018 at 8:14
  • I'm not entirely sure of that but since its a complete copy of bitcoin source, I don't think anything would be different.
    – Laksh Gandikota
    Aug 14, 2018 at 21:16

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