I'm trying to learn how litecoins work (and learn new programming language at same time by writing a crappy little miner).
I'm stuck with getdata
. Here http://litecoin.info/wiki/Scrypt
it says that data is 160 characters long. But its not. Its quite a bit longer than that.
So my questions are:
- 1.) What is
nonce
and how do I use it? - 2.) What is
bits
? - 3.) What are all the 0's after the
bits
.
EDIT: Ok, I think I have to use just first 160 characters of data
and ignore the rest. Correct?