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Ask HN: Pseudocode for the Bitcoin Mining Algorithm?

9 points| nighthawk | 12 years ago | reply

I get the general gist of what problem must be solved for bitcoin mining, namely wanting to find a nonce that pairs with your data to result in a hash with x leading zeros where x is the current difficulty level.

However, I'm having trouble finding the exact algorithm, which uses double SHA-256 encryption, etc.

Can someone give or point me to the full pseudo code for the mining algorithm?

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