Those who wish to mine ETH, which is similar to bitcoin mining, need to download the Ethereum genesis block with all the transactions from the ETH crowdsale last August. (coinfox.info)
The tracking system had its first genesis block on Aug. 2 and while still not yet available to the public, has (dailybitcoinnews.com)
Although many celebrate the date the first bitcoin genesis block occurred, which was on January 3, 2009 — it was actually six years ago that Satoshi published the Bitcoin Whitepaper, on October 31, 2008. (blog.blockchain.com)