Genesis
Block 0 — mined December 27, 2020
The first block of the Tidecoin chain. Paid 50 TDC to a Falcon-512 public key, with an IEEE Spectrum headline embedded in the coinbase scriptSig.
The headline embedded in the coinbase
spectrum.ieee.org 09/Dec/2020 Photonic Quantum Computer Displays ‘Supremacy’ Over Supercomputers.
Article date
December 9, 2020
IEEE Spectrum coverage of the Jiuzhang photonic quantum computer result published by Pan Jianwei's group at USTC.
Block mined
December 27, 2020 19:09 UTC
18 days after the article was published.
The convention echoes Bitcoin's own genesis coinbase, which embedded “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” — a contemporary newspaper headline timestamping the chain's launch. Tidecoin's is a quantum-computing milestone from the same month it went live.
Block facts
- Height
- 0
- Hash
- 480ecc7602d8989f32483377ed66381c391dda6215aeef9e80486a7fd3018075
- Time
- 2020-12-27 19:09:40 UTC
- Subsidy
- 50.00000000 TDC
- Signature scheme
- Falcon-512