Great tidings steemians, I'm @wesley11 and this is my homework post for @awesononso ## **WHAT IS THE GENESIS BLOCK OF A BLOCK CHAIN?** ---- ![Screenshot_20210708-134358_1625748304269.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcBDkyqFrzkWQq6vwQRpQ3RQPU7GypnTZeWdCqZa3TYk3/Screenshot_20210708-134358_1625748304269.png) [source](https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-genesis-block-constructed-11-years-ago-today/) The word Genesis as we probably are aware is the principal book of the Christian Book of scriptures which harped on the beginning and the creation story of the world and people everywhere, along these lines the word Beginning likewise implies a beginning point, a commencement, a start or the demonstration of something appearing. A block is the thing that frames the block chain when they are masterminded in series used to set aside informations dependent on exchanges that has occured on the block chain organization and each block can be recognized by it's hash independently. A Genesis block alludes to the main block of a specific digital currency that was at any point framed or mined, it gives a layout for different block in the block chain to follow and move in a similar example. ---- ## **WRITE ON THE BITCOIN GENESIS BLOCK AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE** **A SHORT HISTORY** Bitcoin as we as a whole know is viewed as the mother of crypto currency and it was first started on January 3, 2009 by it's unknown author Satoshi nakamoto. The first since forever Bitcoin block mined was done on that date and it was viewed as the beginning of the crypto period, albeit some of individuals contend that the beginning of the time was about 3months before that date when the Bitcoin white paper was given out. The Bitcoin Genesis block is the formation of a money that is completely digitalized and decentralized. It gives clients admittance to make exchanges with shared instrument with no requirement for a confided in monetary focal body. The primary block has consistently been portrayed as block 0 and each block is associated together holding data of the exchange that was made. ***REWARDS:*** The Genesis block from the outset was compensated with 50BTC as expressed in the talk yet not any longer, the prize for mining one Bitcoin block is 6.25BTC which will be given to simply the individual that effectively mines the block. Albeit the primary exchange of 50BTC isn't withdrawable. ***TIMESTAMP:*** As we probably are aware the normal time for mining Bitcoin is 10minutes yet after the block 0 the Genesis block, the following block took about 6days to mine albeit the speculation proposed that the product was created on January third however was tried until January ninth, which thereafter the test where erased and the Genesis post was utilized as a layout. *Block 0: 3rd January 2009; 18:15:05* *Block 1: 9th January 2009; 02:54:25* ***COSTS:*** It utilizes a proof of work agreement instrument , in view of the fact that it is so costly to gain an organization hash rate, it makes it hard for diggers to screw with the exchanges subtleties. HIDDEN MESSAGE "THE TIMES 03/JAN/2009 CHANCELLOR OR BRINK OF SECOND BAILOUT FOR BANKS. The message was shipped off demonstrate the justification the production of the Bitcoin block chain and furthermore show that it was made at that specific date. ![Screenshot_20210708-121226_1625742838739.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYQ4NDwhM57kEaf6A4XTEVH2SHkJw6dev832bKafNksTM/Screenshot_20210708-121226_1625742838739.png) [source](https://genesisblockhk.com/what-is-the-genesis-block/) ---- ## **SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BITCOIN GENESIS BLOCK** The making of the Bitcoin Genesis block has a couple of importance which I will list a couple underneath: - The mining of the Genesis block achieves believe that everybody can know how it began having equivalent right and openings for everybody. - It gives expectation and space for the making of other digital forms of money being the mother of crypto currencies which has birthed such countless monetary standards in presence now. - Achieves the production of different block in light of the layout from the Genesis block is being utilized to mine and assemble different blocks. ---- ## **STEEM GENESIS BLOCK** It is very simple to discover the steem Genesis block 1 as it was clarified well in this post. First visit www.steemworld.org, you will see a page like the one you can see beneath: ![Screenshot_20210708-121233_1625742904236.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmb1iM3JT7bL1TfdWPT2YNbCHELmijkU9Kjrcijnx1toCK/Screenshot_20210708-121233_1625742904236.png) As we can see below, the block id, the witness and the time stamp of the block one click on the sign in catch to login to your account ![Screenshot_20210708-121239_1625742950844.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmX3AdkdZd5HHBW2AAF6RF4LLQCCMH7sbCtoRaBT41s7TD/Screenshot_20210708-121239_1625742950844.png) Put your username and your posting key ![Screenshot_20210708-121255_1625742994906.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeKB4Sdb1HZkxo9rpKUcdiK2KdQgouqbqGv6zz3hyjtBp/Screenshot_20210708-121255_1625742994906.png) Snap on the block Explorer to discover the square 1 ![Screenshot_20210708-121300_1625743048809.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTA7AXaXkTi84THY1u4CRxq7reqEkm1BKSZFxUEFrCwxP/Screenshot_20210708-121300_1625743048809.png) Info the block number 1 ![Screenshot_20210708-121305_1625743089314.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQWa18tQaLVoEPTKpTk46UeReZ35BXQFuXrUJkUiAfCyV/Screenshot_20210708-121305_1625743089314.png) ![Screenshot_20210708-121309_1625743134400.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTPWV6Jq1zLyapf737nMyojUGGp8XNv5kWfzznDjv7n72/Screenshot_20210708-121309_1625743134400.png) ## **IN CONCLUSION** All in all, the Genesis block is truly significant and knowing it's set of experiences, importance and why it was made is an extremely wonderful information and I'm happy I acquired that. I likewise found out about the steem Genesis block and how to discover it which was intriguing, I truly should praise @awesononso for this one, it was extraordinary # Much thanks to you for perusing..... *****************************************