<p>Never mind I figured out my mistake. Earlier bitcoin blocks stored the public key in the signature instead of its hash.
Thank you anyway.</p>

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2020-11-16T23:04:45.160Z
Note that this depends on your definition of "address". These days an address is a way of representing a specific output script, and under that definition the genesis block's coinbase transaction's output simply has **no address**. The  1... address shown in many explorers is historical, from a time when addresses were just a "key identifier".
Pieter Wuille
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2020-11-15T22:45:33.953Z
2020-11-15T22:45:33.953Z
Walid Tabar
<p>Can you please decode block 0 output transaction manually showing me how to get the output address namely: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa</p>

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2020-11-15T20:07:22.003Z
How are you trying to decode it? There isn't anything special about block 0, you can decode it like any other block.
Ava Chow
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2020-11-15T22:26:51.527Z
I could not find the address of the output transaction. can you show me how you get to the address (in my original post)
Walid Tabar
<genesis-block><p2pk>
cannot decode block 0 to find the output address. I can decode much higher blocks. what am i missing?
Walid Tabar
# cannot decode block 0 to find the output address. I can decode much higher blocks. what am i missing?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-15)

Can you please decode block 0 output transaction manually showing me how to get the output address namely: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

**Tags:** genesis-block, p2pk

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: How are you trying to decode it? There isn't anything special about block 0, you can decode it like any other block.  
> **username_0**: I could not find the address of the output transaction. can you show me how you get to the address (in my original post)  

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### Answer by username_0 on 2020-11-15. Score: 1

Never mind I figured out my mistake. Earlier bitcoin blocks stored the public key in the signature instead of its hash.
Thank you anyway.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Note that this depends on your definition of "address". These days an address is a way of representing a specific output script, and under that definition the genesis block's coinbase transaction's output simply has **no address**. The  1... address shown in many explorers is historical, from a time when addresses were just a "key identifier".  

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