How does mining work on a technical level?

Asked Aug 05 '23 at 20:53

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I want to make a scrypt/sha256 miner for Bitcoin and altcoins in C to learn more about how mining works in Bitcoin, altcoins and learn more C. getblocktemplate gives some data that is needed for mining from what I understand, but I dont understand the data that much. What is it that you have to do to actually do the mining and then to give the data to rpc through submitblock?

Please dont be harsh on me. Im just trying to learn more about cryptocurrency by making a Bitcoin/altcoin miner.

And yes, I know it's not profitable before anyone says that, it's just to learn about cryptocurrency.

asked Aug 05 '23 at 20:53

IdotMaster1

Does this answer your question? What exactly is Mining?. See also What data is hashed and What can a miner vary etc – RedGrittyBrick Aug 05 '23 at 21:45
@RedGrittyBrick It does kind of help, but I want to know the "steps" that I would have to reach so I can generate the block data that I can give to submitblock from the data I get from getblocktemplate – IdotMaster1 Aug 06 '23 at 00:46

How does mining work on a technical level?

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