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I am a web developer and looking for well written technical documents about how bitcoin/litecoin works, what is the workflow, what is the algorithm and how can I write a miner from scratch by using JavaScript (or similar).

It will be a kind of hobby/portfolio project, so I am not worrying about the performance and the other possible issues.

Thanks in advance.

Tim
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Why reinvent the wheel?

I think there are several simple javascript miners out there, so I won't bother telling you more than to google it (or to duckduckgo it, if you prefer).

But whilst we are at it: Would you believe people have gone far beyond it and found a way to program a javascript-based miner using GPUs, as pointed out in an answer on bitcoin.stackexchange? That project is hosted here.

Community
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This isn't written specifically about mining, but I wrote a comprehensive document that a web developer can follow. It also contains the library on the page so you can experiment along in the console.

Here it is:

Generating a Bitcoin Address in JavaScript

Hopefully it helps you some on your quest to learn more about Bitcoin.

JP Richardson
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