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# confirmationHeight

The block height at which the transaction creating this coin was
confirmed on chain.

```
var confirmationHeight: UInt32 { get }
```

## Discussion

Used by the kernel to enforce BIP 68 relative time locks and the
100-block coinbase-maturity rule. For a coin created in the genesis
block, this is `0`.