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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def start(self) -> pd.Timestamp: """Returns the minimum timestamp value of the DataFrame."""

        start = self.data.timestamp.min()
        self.data = self.data.assign(start=start)
        return start