I get the general gist of what problem must be solved for bitcoin mining, namely wanting to find a nonce that pairs with your data to result in a hash with x leading zeros where x is the current difficulty level.<p>However, I'm having trouble finding the exact algorithm, which uses double SHA-256 encryption, etc.<p>Can someone give or point me to the full pseudo code for the mining algorithm?
The source code is here:
<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/miner.cpp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/miner.cpp</a><p>Basically, the ScanHash_CryptoPP(..) function does the actual hashing, and is called by the BitcoinMiner(..) function, which checks if the returned hash has the appropriate number of 0 bits.