Is it me or am I going crazy.
To prepare for a lawsuit against New York Department on Financial Services on 3/17/2017
(http://www.article78againstNYDFS.com) I need to understand the blockchain technology down to the core.
After two years of on and off writen my own parser just came to the understanding that the Coinbase Input Address is "simply" (I write simply the Public key ECDSA and I spent hours trying to figure out OPScripting .....) the public key.
When I manually compute the ECDSA key of the genesis block I get this address: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Then when I manually compute the one for the next block (block #2) I get: 12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX (which is reported as Block #1 in
https://blockchain.info or
https://blockexplorer.com)
Why is the Genesis address reported by itself and not in block #1 ?https://blockchain.info/tx/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33bThe first thing someone does when learning is to read the first byte on block0000.dat and the first byte is block #1.
Regards,
Theo Chino
@TheoBitcoin
http://www.article78againstNYDFS.com