Hello everyone how are you doing, i am good. Today i am going to participate another informative contest, although it was new for me and i searched it a lot to answer the question upto my best level. Although the contest enables me to share my knowledge about the given topic Steemit Crypto Academy Contest / S11W5 : Steem blockchain age || Edad de Steem blockchain.
What is the Genesis blockchain? Explain its meaning. Show screenshot of the Genesis block of the Steem blockchain.
A genesis block referred to the first ever block in cryptocurrency that was mined for example Bitcoin. As we knew that any blockchain is formed by blocks which are useful for storage of information particularly the transaction that takes place in black chain network.
Interestingly, every block contains a unique series of header and then every block is recognized by its special header hash that is given to it, making its more secure.
How the genesis block are formed, every block layers such as one top of another, it formed the base of genesis block. It continue till the sequence should complete. The history and sequence of each layer is unique and safe that's why it enables to make blockchain based crypto currencies and its transaction safe and secure
Moreover, in case of steem its also based on cryptocurrency block chain in this case every block is connected with older block and making a complete chain. In this case every block is connected with Genesis block because its very former block and it secure all the information. As its responsible for storage of all data of steemit and also making the transaction secure.
Screenshot of the Genesis block of the Steem blockchain.
In order to check Genesis block of steem blockchain i open the site steemworld. Here i can show you how Genesis block can be checked.
STEP 1
I login on steemworld and main dashboard appeared i click on the the block explorer. The dialog will be appeared as shown in the picture.
STEP 2
After clicking on block explorer a default view appear as show in the picture 61000000. I entered the digit 1 and it shows the Genesis block.
STEP 3
The Genesis block can be seen as shown in the picture below. It can be seen that first block was formed on 2016-03-24 and the time was 21:05:00.
So this is simple way by the help of steemit tool it can be easily find the first Genesis block.
What is the last block produced? Determine the total time of the Steem blockchain, used the production date of the Genesis block and the production date of the last block.
With the help of steemyy tool i have taken the data that is relevant to find genesis block and then with the help of calculations i found the estimated time of steemit block chain.
With the help of latest block chain i have calculated the age of steem block chain. As it can be seen in the screenshot the most recent block which is produced is #77628295, lets calculate the age of steem blockchain.
77628295
77628295 × 3 = 232884885 sec
232884885 ÷ 60 sec =3881414.75 mins
3881414.75÷ 60 mins = 64690.2458333 hours
64690.2458333 ÷ 24 = 2695.42690972 days
2695.42690972 ÷ 365 = 7.38 years
Approximately Equal to = 7.4 years
As the last genesis block was 77628295 and its produced after every 3 second. So i multiply it with 3, then seconds into minutes, minutes into hours and then days and finally into years. In the last i got the age of steem block chain that is 7.4 years.
Explain the downtime of a blockchain - why can it occur?
The downtime on Steemit block chain may happened and may become unavailable when Steem has an issue in the outage process and it become topped while added new blocks. The resultantly, the blockchain and the apps which are on top of it , it may turned dark, and it refers to downtime of block chain.
Sometimes the downtime may be observed due to heavy traffic of users on steemit blockchain, which may halt it for a second. However the halt in second still may affected the transactions and other network issues on blockchain.
It may also be happened due to fraud alert or cyber attack issues which may effect the block chain to be down.
Has the Steem blockchain experienced downtime? If it has presented downtime, explain, mentioning the cases.
Yes, as i am working on steemit since two years and few month back i have faced this issue, i was trying to post my publication. And some day ago pictures were not even shown after uploading it gone failed again and again.
Similarly, the comment errors were also there, it didn't work. i had tried it alot but failed then i contact my friend she told me its might downtime wait for a while and it was alright after few hours.
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The first block of any Blockchain is called genesis. All the new block then attach to it in the form of chain. You have beautifully taught us how to find genesis. The phenomena of finding Steemit's age and it's downtime all are explained very well.
I am glad to read your post here. Best wishes for the contest.
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Saludos amiga, muy interesante forma de abarcar el tema. Es verdad, el bloque Génesis como su nombre lo indica es el bloque madre de donde se derivan los demás, y todos se relacionan para hacer las transacciones seguras.
Con respecto a la inactividad, estas suceden por variadas razones como fallas, mucho tráfico o ataques cibernéticos. Es correcto, la fallas de las imágenes y los comentarios la vivimos todos los usuarios.
Te felicito por hacer una gran investigación, saludos y feliz día!
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Hi friend
It is important to know these statistics of our platform, today technology has advanced that we have continued to witness how there are active and inactive periods.
Today you share a perspective from your knowledge, I also participated and I confess that I had been confused and tried to do the best I could and understood. I see that you have been able to express your experiences.
Thanks for sharing.
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La importancia de Génesis como el primer bloque es invaluable, ya que a partir de él se genera sucesivamente un bloque tras otro cada 3 segundos, entrelazado uno con su antecesor, formando una cadena de información segura y confiable. Es la semilla con la que creció la comunidad Steemit y donde hemos crecido juntos.
Saludos y éxitos, ¡mucha suerte!
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Greetings Sis ☺️
Your thoughts are very clear about that topic like the first block called the Genesis Block and thus from a long chain of these blocks which is considered as a Blockchain network. Yes I have also witnessed the same issues some months ago i think that was due to network issue or any updates within the Blockchain.
Wish you very good luck 🤞
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Hi my dear friend ! How are you ? You are growing day by day..Masha Allah ..more power to you. It's good to see your post in crypto as well.
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