[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

2013-01-14 Thread Peter Todd
As the title says. Basically on testnet we should give people the chance to test how their code handles attempts to spend the genesis block coinbase, as well as other tx's made to the genesis block address. After all, potentially Satoshi is still out there, still has that key, and still may cause

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

2013-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: Basically on testnet we should give people the chance to test how their code handles attempts to spend the genesis block coinbase, as well as other tx's made to the genesis block address. After all, potentially Satoshi is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

2013-01-14 Thread Gavin Andresen
The testnet3 genesis block is identical to the main network genesis block, except it has a different timestamp and nonce. So its coinbase pays to the same public key as the main network. I don't have that private key. Good idea for testnet4, whenever that happens, though. -- -- Gavin Andresen