vsergeev / ntgbtminer

A no thrills getblocktemplate Bitcoin miner, written in Python.

ntgbtminer

ntgbtminer is a no thrills getblocktemplate Bitcoin miner. It is not performant, but demonstrates basic use of the getblocktemplate protocol for a standalone Bitcoin miner. It has no dependencies outside of standard Python libraries and a JSON-HTTP connection to your local Bitcoin daemon.

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Usage

• Configure rpcuser and rpcpass in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

• Start bitcoind

$ bitcoind -testnet -daemon

• Run ntgbtminer

$ RPC_USER=bitcoinrpc RPC_PASS=foobar RPC_URL="http://127.0.0.1:18332" \
    python3 ntgbtminer.py "Hello from vsergeev!" "mr9zpiUkvGukpg1uZ99NdAxwJmuSYYmNA3"

License

ntgbtminer is MIT licensed. See the provided LICENSE file.