Talk:Genesis block

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'though this reward can't be spent due to a quirk in the way that the genesis block is expressed in the code (this may have been intentional).'

Can anyone explain more about what the quirk was exactly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Osmosis (talkcontribs) at 17:13, 3 May 2013‎

Old comment is old, but I just added some references - the tl;dr without getting technical is that the transaction isn't entered into the database and so can't be referenced in further transactions. TheRealSteve (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2015 (UTC)