Mine the genesis block using a bitcoin miner.

[luckcolors]

Hello.
I wanted to know if it's possible to use an bitcoin asic miner to mine the genesis block, as cpu mining takes a lot of time (6-7 hours).
If it's possible how would i send the right work parameters to the miner? Would i need to setup a stratum pool?
Thanks.

[achow101]

In theory it is possible, but not really necessary. The genesis block for any blockchain should be mined at a very very low difficulty. Usually it is done by modifying the client source code to include a basic CPU miner with all parameters (genesis transaction, previous block hash, etc.) except the nonce preset in hex and then hashed. Because the genesis block should be a low difficulty block (ideally the lowest possible difficulty), it should not take a very long time to find.

[SolarFlareProject]

Correct, there's not necessary to mine the genesis block with a miner, it's possible to do with a normal computer as the difficulty is very low.
 If cpu mining takes a lot of time (6-7 hours) to mine genesis block, there's something wrong in the settings of the coin.