Thanks for making it more clear. My purpose is purely educational and I don't want to disturb other miners.

I've been looking around and I'll use the testnet for development purpose.

Kind regards,
mawakajaka

Hey,

Thanks for replying but do you know how to receive a valid bitcoin header from the network?


Kind regards,
Mawakajaka

Hello all,


I've been searching around the forum/web but I can't find any real answer to my question.

Question short:

How can I write a custom program that is able to get the correct data from a mining pool?


Question long:

I've written a bitcoin miner module on a zynq 7000 SoC/fpga development board called a Zybo.
The fpga expects a bitcoin header and processes it until the nounce is found for that difficulty.
The zynq7000 chip has 2 arm A9 processors and a fpga part with interconnection in between.
Currently Linux is running on these processors and data can be send from/to the fpga part.

I want to be able to mine on my fpga but I need to receive the correct data from a mining pool.

Currently I see 2 options:

1) Make a custom driver for cgminer or bfgminer and let them handle the communication with the mining pools. However I cant find any details on how to write a driver for these programs and the existing drivers aren't really clear to use as an example.

2) Write a custom program that communicates with the mining pool. This program will extract the received data from the pool and send data/controls to the fpga. However I cant find any details of how to communicate to the mining pools (I'm currently using f2pool and antpool but I'm open for other suggestions).

Can anyone help me getting started with writing a custom driver or mining software?

Kind regards,
Mawakajaka