Hello,
I would really like to be allowed into the forum beyond before I have completed the required 5 posts and 4 hours logged in.
Here is what I read and understand about bitcoins:
- Satoshi's original paper
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction-
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification-
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork-
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2.pdf- and more ...
Here is what I have done so far with bitcoins:
- I have downloaded a bitcoin wallet
- I tried mining with BFG miner (but I don't think I ran it long enough to get results)
- I have installed ModelSim and I am working on a VHDL code that calls SHA-256 twice. I have base myself on free code from Git Hub (Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner-master). My program is fully pipelined.
- Now, before programming my FPGA and trying to mine with it on a pool, I'd like to verify the working of the code with test vectors (inputs and there corresponding outputs).
Thanks ^^