Development of a mining-client

[josie87]

Hello friends,

I recently started dealing with bitcoins and mining. I think I have some good ideas for a miner and I would like to write my own.

Anyway: I can't find a real good explanation/documentation about mining. I'm searching for a simple explanation like:

1. Recieve THIS
2. Find a way to compute THIS
3. Return the result in THIS way



I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

[josie87]

push


I really need help.

[humanitee]

Something like this?
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification

[enmaku]

[urlhttps://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm]poclbm[/url] is a good opencl miner, open source and written in Python which is fairly easy to understand. Perusing its source will probably teach you much more than a thread here will.

[janbanan]

If you wonder about something you should do as @enmaku said and see how other miners have done it.

I'm curious to know how you'll stand out from the other open source miners.

[pieppiep]

I would go with the getwork way.
Upside, a lot less protocol handling so faster result.
Downside, for solo mining you need to setup other software for your own pool.

[pieppiep]

Oh, and if you change to something other like litecoin, you just have to update the sha256(sha256(work)) to scrypt(work).
You don't have to think about difficulty of little protocol changes.

[Handler]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork this is what you want, but to be honest don't reinvent the wheel their are a lot of different miners out their and they do it very well, so i would say your wasting your time, unless your some kind of genius who knows how to optimize to get 1 T/Hash on a CPU don't even try.

If everyone were to listen to this we wouldn't get anywhere... One mans wasted time is another mans treasure.