The genesis block is the first generated block of a blockchain. Dash Diamond’s genesis block was minted on the 29th August 2019. The creator of Dash Diamond, who used to be “James W.”, minted the genesis block at 03:43:45 UTC. Part of the genesis block was a premine of 180k DASHD coins, which was at that time a 1% share from the total maximum supply. Some of the DASHD from the premine are still untouched and weren’t moved or used over the past 3 Years. Dash Diamond had initially a block time of 150 seconds. At block number #17 the first masternode was created. On the same day James W. posted a screenshot of his wallet in DASHD Discord channel showing the successful start of the blockchain.
Every Dash Diamond wallet still has the genesis block inside its block database. From Block #0 onwards, the merkelhashes are computed block after block. The whole block chain is a tree shaped structure starting with the genesis block at the root, with each block potentially having multiple candidates to be the next block. The current merkelhash has dependances on the genesis block. It is common that developers leave a text message inside the genesis block. Here you can see the raw block data of the DASHD genesis block.
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00000000 D9 BD DB 3D 06 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Ù½Û=............
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D4 DD 9A C6 ............ÔÝšÆ
00000030 B4 BB 67 6A 62 BF A0 7B 2A C2 AA 87 54 08 88 37 ´»gjb¿ {*ª‡T.ˆ7
00000040 F1 34 6B 06 C2 B6 02 94 FA 03 C0 81 24 2B 67 5D ñ4k.¶.”ú.À.$+g]
00000050 F0 FF 0F 1E 7D 2C 1D 00 01 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 ðÿ..},..........
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF ..............ÿÿ
00000080 FF FF 36 04 FF FF 00 1D 01 04 2E 49 74 73 20 68 ÿÿ6.ÿÿ.....Its h <----
00000090 61 72 64 20 74 6F 20 62 65 20 61 20 64 69 61 6D ard to be a diam <----
000000A0 6F 6E 64 20 69 6E 20 61 20 72 68 69 6E 65 73 74 ond in a rhinest <----
000000B0 6F 6E 65 20 77 6F 72 6C 64 FF FF FF FF 01 00 E1 one worldÿÿÿÿ..á <----
000000C0 F5 05 00 00 00 00 43 41 04 26 9D 7E 08 EC 3F 33 õ.....CA.&.~.ì?3
000000D0 89 5E 99 0C C9 D0 DF 71 6A 86 0C 11 65 F0 C4 10 ‰^™.ÉÐßqj†..eðÄ.
000000E0 8A 9D 5E 0C E0 4D C9 38 03 60 6B 1B 30 AD CA A4 Š.^.àMÉ8.`k.0.ʤ
000000F0 8D 6F CE 12 C6 76 AA D9 1A 91 17 AC A5 9F 7F 60 .oÎ.ÆvªÙ.‘.¬¥Ÿ.`
00000100 F5 6A 13 69 D6 FB 2E 97 29 AC 00 00 00 00 D9 BD õj.iÖû.—)¬....Ù½As you can see from the above HEX-translated block data, James W. also hardcoded a genesis message inside the first Dash Diamond block. “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world”. Below you can see the famous genesis block message of Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”.
00000000 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020 00 00 00 00 3B A3 ED FD 7A 7B 12 B2 7A C7 2C 3E ....;£íýz{.²zÇ,>
00000030 67 76 8F 61 7F C8 1B C3 88 8A 51 32 3A 9F B8 AA gv.a.È.ÈŠQ2:Ÿ¸ª
00000040 4B 1E 5E 4A 29 AB 5F 49 FF FF 00 1D 1D AC 2B 7C K.^J)«_Iÿÿ...¬+|
00000050 01 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 4D 04 FF FF 00 1D ......ÿÿÿÿM.ÿÿ..
00000080 01 04 45 54 68 65 20 54 69 6D 65 73 20 30 33 2F ..EThe Times 03/ <----
00000090 4A 61 6E 2F 32 30 30 39 20 43 68 61 6E 63 65 6C Jan/2009 Chancel <----
000000A0 6C 6F 72 20 6F 6E 20 62 72 69 6E 6B 20 6F 66 20 lor on brink of <----
000000B0 73 65 63 6F 6E 64 20 62 61 69 6C 6F 75 74 20 66 second bailout f <----
000000C0 6F 72 20 62 61 6E 6B 73 FF FF FF FF 01 00 F2 05 or banksÿÿÿÿ..ò. <----
000000D0 2A 01 00 00 00 43 41 04 67 8A FD B0 FE 55 48 27 *....CA.gŠý°þUH'
000000E0 19 67 F1 A6 71 30 B7 10 5C D6 A8 28 E0 39 09 A6 .gñ¦q0·.\Ö¨(à9.¦
000000F0 79 62 E0 EA 1F 61 DE B6 49 F6 BC 3F 4C EF 38 C4 ybàê.aÞ¶Iö¼?Lï8Ä
00000100 F3 55 04 E5 1E C1 12 DE 5C 38 4D F7 BA 0B 8D 57 óU.å.Á.Þ\8M÷º..W
00000110 8A 4C 70 2B 6B F1 1D 5F AC 00 00 00 00 ŠLp+kñ._¬....To see and check blockdata by yourself you can use a hex viewer. Simply import the first blockfile from your wallet and inspect it within the hex viewer. Another method to view blockchain data is using your wallet and the ‘getblock’ cli command (usage: getblock #BLOCKHASH false). This will output the HEX-data of the corresponding block.
The logo of Dash Diamond from 2019 was initially a diamond shape with an orange DASH sign in it. Early 2021, when the Decenomy developers continued the work on Dash Diamond, the logo had been changed. The new design is a futuristic and simplified design of a diamond in light blue coloring. The Dash sign is placed in the center of the diamond shape. The textual logo is placed at the bottom of the graphical composition.
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At the time of writing this article Dash Diamond has a 3 years history with over 1 million blocks. It currently counts about 8000 Masternodes, which gives it a top 3 rank in the statistics of masternode online. DASHD has a sparkling future ahead and as already the creator mentioned “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world”. We are looking forward to the next birthday of Dash Diamond.
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