This is the first block of the Ethereum blockchain, just like the genesis block of the Bitcoin blockchain. The height of the genesis block is 0.
The Genesis block was mined on Jul 30, 2015 and marks the first block of the Ethereum blockchain. The difficulty of the genesis block was at 17,179,869,184, as shown in the following screenshot:
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