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  <p>How to get the first block of bitcoin?</p>
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<li>take blk0000.dat</li>
<li>skip first 8 bytes</li>
<li>take 285 bytes</li>
</ol>

<p>that's all, folks!</p>

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2017-03-07T14:29:54.843Z
Care to elaborate on that if you are not hard
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Everyone understood what you meant

https://coinlogic.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/the-protocol-1-block/
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<p>I put together a small fork, and I want to extract the first block of bitcoin. </p>

<p>At the moment I can't, and can't understand why, maybe I forgot something to disable or change.</p>

<p>Here is a link to the fork with a modified Genesis blocks. 
I pointed out a time in the future</p>

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How to get the first block of bitcoin?
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# How to get the first block of bitcoin?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-07)

I put together a small fork, and I want to extract the first block of bitcoin.

At the moment I can't, and can't understand why, maybe I forgot something to disable or change.

Here is a link to the fork with a modified Genesis blocks.
I pointed out a time in the future

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-03-07. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

> How to get the first block of bitcoin?

1. take blk0000.dat
2. skip first 8 bytes
3. take 285 bytes

that's all, folks!

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Care to elaborate on that if you are not hard  
> **username_0**: Everyone understood what you meant  https://coinlogic.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/the-protocol-1-block/  

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