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Example of how a Bitcoin block is mined by finding a successful nonce
import hashlib, struct
ver = 2
prev_block = "000000000000000117c80378b8da0e33559b5997f2ad55e2f7d18ec1975b9717"
mrkl_root = "871714dcbae6c8193a2bb9b2a69fe1c0440399f38d94b3a0f1b447275a29978a"
time_ = 0x53058b35 # 2014-02-20 04:57:25
bits = 0x19015f53
# https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
exp = bits >> 24
mant = bits & 0xffffff
target_hexstr = '%064x' % (mant * (1<<(8*(exp - 3))))
target_str = target_hexstr.decode('hex')
nonce = 0
while nonce < 0x100000000:
header = ( struct.pack("<L", ver) + prev_block.decode('hex')[::-1] +
mrkl_root.decode('hex')[::-1] + struct.pack("<LLL", time_, bits, nonce))
hash = hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(header).digest()).digest()
print nonce, hash[::-1].encode('hex')
if hash[::-1] < target_str:
print 'success'
break
nonce += 1
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you wouldn't happen to have a python 3 version of this would you?

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turunut commented Aug 22, 2017

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