/Distributed_bitcoin_mining

Using Elixir/Erlang

Primary LanguageElixir

Project1

• A distributed client-server system to mine bitcoins using Elixir Actor Model, taking advantage of multiple multi-core machines.
• The server mines bitcoins independently while multiple clients get connected to the server, request work from the server (leading zeros) and mine bitcoins using the SHA-256 algorithm on randomly generated strings.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding project1 to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:project1, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/project1.