Questions related to the genesis block or file used in the initialization of a blockchain.
Questions related to the genesis block or file used in the initialization of a blockchain.
Questions tagged [genesis]
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What is the meaning of Ethereum mainnet genesis block extradata value?
Mainnet genesis bloc (see https://etherscan.io/block/0) has 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa as extraData value.
It doesn't seem to convert to ascii and, as this field is free and can have any content, I wondered…
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Does the Genesis Block get the block reward of 5 ether?
Getting mixed information.
According to https://etherscan.io/block/0) it does and was mined by 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 on July 30th but according to the Parity (archival mode) it does not.
Furthermore, the first transaction in or…
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How can I get the genesis block info
I am playing around with a private blockchain, and I realize that I do not know how to get the "genesis block" info. The eth.getBlock(0) does not show the Genesis information, for example, pre-fund by "alloc".
So, how can I retrieve the information…
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oversized data during truffle migrate
In Quorum, while deploying a 54KB smart contract via truffle migrate, I am getting the error "oversized data"
Tried adding maxCodeSize to genesis.json but did not work
Nathan Aw
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How to generate the right genesis file, using puppeth?
I tried to generate genesis block (POA), and genesis.json don't contain these strings
{
"sealEngine": "BasicAuthority",
"options": {
"authorities": [
"0xfa0c706a1410c8785baa7498325cf7461b325583",
…
Вячеслав Дмитриев
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hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy joke in the genesis block
According to the Yellow Paper, the genesis block is specified by 15 items as follows:
Regarding KEC((42)), it goes on to say:
KEC (42) refers to the Keccak hash of a byte array
of length one whose first and only byte is of value 42,
used for the…
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When starting a new public ethereum blockchain can I disclose the genesis file?
I am using the ethereum codebase to create a new ethereum based blockchain. I don't want to call it a private blockchain because it will be public.
I have been able to set it up, created my own blockchain and all is good.
I am not sure if one can…
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Define "difficultyHardforkBoundDivisor" parameter?
Does anyone know what the "difficultyHardforkBoundDivisor" parameter refers to? I don't find it in any of the glossaries I know.
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Define "difficultyHardforkTransition" parameter?
I have looked through all of the glossaries I know of for genesis/chain spec files but I don't see this one. Can anyone tell me what "difficultyHardforkTransition" means?
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