I am writing a software to mine bitcoins (in golang) as part of a college project. I'd like to know how is it that I build a block (which would potentially get appended to the end of the block chain) so I can send the 25 newly generated bitcoins to myself. You may assume I already know how to build a basic block header.
An example would be greatly appreciated, any dummy data may be used.
Also, I'd like to know if I would need to insert in the merkle tree any information regarding the transaction that gives the 25 newly generated coins to the miner.
Thanks in advance!
