← ALL PROPOSALSPROPOSAL 000Block 0 Coinbase
PROVABLY LOSTFINAL
AuthorAnders Brownworth
Created2020-12-18
Scale Estimate50 BTC
First Seen in Block0

The coinbase transaction in the first block (0) is not included in the spendable UTXO set by the bitcoin software and is therefore provably lost.

Abstract

Bitcoin's source code excludes the coinbase transaction in block 0 from the spendable outputs. It is unclear if this was deliberatly done but at this point is considered highly unlikely to be reversed.

if (block.block_number == 0)