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Title: Mining algorithm Post by: hkproj on July 25, 2011, 02:19:56 PM Hi, I read the entire wiki, also read some code in C and python. Here is what I understood about the mining algorithm:
- GetWork using RPC call - Read the 'data' section in the result in JSON returned from the server. Decode it into binary and change the byte ordering so that reflects the little-endian format (should I rotate chunks of 4 byte or byte per byte?) - Read the 'nonce' value, which is stored in byte from '76' to '80'. - Try incrementing the nonce value in the data, and then hash the 'data' with the modified nonce, and re-hash the result. - Check if the generated hash's value (converted to a number) is less than that of the target (which is a number stored as HEX). - If that is true, send the modified header to the daemon. Is that right? Thank you. |