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May 25, 2013, 10:30:37 PM |
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The genesis block's output is not actually part of the transaction database, as it cannot be spent.
The reason is simply because no version of bitcoin ever added it to its database when creating a new datadir. The reason is unknown - it may have been a bug or it may have been intentional by Satoshi, but changing it now would be a hard fork (which would only be exploitable by Satoshi, but still), and there is no good reason to do so now.
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