The Story Behind the Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin

[serhack]

Hello everyone,

I published a new article on my blog about the first genesis block mined by Satoshi. I analyzed the very first version of the Bitcoin source code (available at the time only for those who wanted to give their opinion on the code, published by Cryddit on this forum) and found many interesting peculiarities. I have also written in detail all the fields of a blockchain that maybe can be useful to beginners and non-beginners who have to interface with the code the first time.

Here is the link: https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/

If you have any doubts, questions (or insults), this is the place to be! I know it's against the rules to spam, however, from the first feedback I gathered it seemed to be good enough to merit a thread.

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Regarding the differences in the source code: Gavin Andressen completely rewrote it in 2010, so that less than 1/3 of Satoshi's original code was left, and subsequent rewrites over the years to move to C++11 and later to C++17 have left almost no fragments of Satoshi code left intact.

[serhack]

Regarding the differences in the source code: Gavin Andressen completely rewrote it in 2010, so that less than 1/3 of Satoshi's original code was left, and subsequent rewrites over the years to move to C++11 and later to C++17 have left almost no fragments of Satoshi code left intact.

Thanks for the detail! I should have mentioned that I compared the next versions of early Bitcoin source code (0.1.0 and sourceforge commits) to focus better on the writing style of Satoshi. I imagined that people worked so much on Bitcoin that almost no fragments of Satoshi code left intact. By the way, thanks again for the merit.