I've read through
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nc13r/the_first_50btc_block_reward_cant_be_spend_why/cchdhrm and
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1080200.0. I think I understand the technicalities behind it.
Some altcoins based on older Bitcoin source code manually insert the genesis block transaction upon startup, as seen here:
https://github.com/suncoin/suncoin/blob/master/src/init.cpp#L811This specific altcoin duplicates what is already in
https://github.com/suncoin/suncoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L2096 in order to be successful. However, there is another example, here
https://github.com/planktonbuddy/krillcoin/blob/689eb1d3b0663b5f39a402a127d4fa16b4f6dbfe/src/main.cpp#L2527It looks like it's doing the same thing but without the duplication in code, am I correct?
According to the comments made in
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1080200.msg11534787#msg11534787, newer version of the Bitcoin source code have checks in place that prevent the Genesis block outputs from being spent. Does this mean that I would need to comment out those pieces of code if I were updating an altcoin to the latest Bitcoin source?
Additionally, what happens if I don't include the code that inserts the genesis transaction into the transaction DB? Will it cause a fork?
Finally, what is the best (or recommended) way to insert the genesis transaction into the transaction database? Do I do it in init.cpp? Or can I do it in chainparams.cpp?
