About this artifact
Genesis coinbase; identified by block 0.
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Written to the chain on 03 Jan 2009, block 0.
Genesis coinbase; identified by block 0.
The coinbase transaction is the first transaction in every block. It creates the block subsidy and fees, so only the miner who finds the block can choose its input field. Bitcoin has always allowed a small amount of arbitrary data there.
More about CoinbaseEvery byte shown here was read from these transactions. Open one in a block explorer to check it yourself.