dartminer 0.0.2

A Bitcoin miner with Dart language.

Dartminer - An example bitcoin mining package written in Dart.

This is an example application of how to build a Bitcoin mining application using the Dart language. This library is really for reference only and is not intended for live use within a bitcoin mining system. In fact, it doesn't actually publish the solution to the solved blockchain if it finds one, but rather just prints out that it found one. I also recommend only using this application using the TestNet within Bitcoin so that you do not risk of hitting the live network with sample code.

On my machine, I was able to hit hash rate of about 500kH/s, which turns out to be about a 15x speed improvement on a JavaScript implementation... While this is impressive, here's hoping that the Dash VM improves in performance with future releases.

Usage

Below is the steps necessary to get this to work.

• Install the Dart SDK and Editor by going to http://dartlang.org.

• Install the Bitcoin-Qt client by going to https://bitcoin.org/en/download

• Ensure that you run Bitcoin-Qt in testnet mode by following the guide http://suffix.be/blog/getting-started-bitcoin-testnet

• Add this project to your library and then use the following code to mine bitcoins.

  import 'package:dartminer/dartminer.dart';

  // Our main entry point. void main() {

  // Create a bitcoin client with the proper configuration.
  Bitcoin bitcoin = new Bitcoin({ "scheme": "http", "host": "127.0.0.1", "port": 18332, "user": "bitcoinrpc", "pass": "123123123123" });

  // Get work from the client. bitcoin.getwork().then((Map<String, String> work) {

   // Create the miner.
   Miner miner = new Miner(work);
      
   // Mine for gold!
   List<int> result = miner.mine();
      
   // Print the result!
   print(result);
  

  }); }

Enjoy...