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I made my own super fast bitcoin miner, however I need help linking to blockchain.

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Look at the source of existing miners to see how they fetch the info, but I will say that finding a novel way of solving a single block that you know the details of already does not make a fast miner, along with the fact that Python is incredibly slow compared to the C or C++ that all the existing miners are written in. If you're only doing it for fun and learning, then just use an API of some blockchain explorer service. I'm not familiar with Bitcoin ones but an ETH equivalent would be something like Etherscan.

Like the title states I made a bitcoin miner that is able to solve Block 286819 in a few seconds, however I had to manually pull information from the linked site. The information required was the previous block, mrkl_root, version, bits, and the difficulty as hex. Like so: 

ver = 2

prev_block = "000000000000000117c80378b8da0e33559b5997f2ad55e2f7d18ec1975b9717"

mrkl_root = "871714dcbae6c8193a2bb9b2a69fe1c0440399f38d94b3a0f1b447275a29978a"

time_ = 0x53058b35 # 2014-02-20 04:57:25

bits = 0x19015f53

# https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

exp = bits >> 24

mant = bits & 0xffffff

target_hexstr = '%064x' % (mant * (1<<(8*(exp - 3))))

target_str = bytes.fromhex(target_hexstr)

Obviously I don't want to go get this information manually for every single block, I'm using python3 and I also need a way to submit the information as well.

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Look at the source of existing miners to see how they fetch the info, but I will say that finding a novel way of solving a single block that you know the details of already does not make a fast miner, along with the fact that Python is incredibly slow compared to the C or C++ that all the existing miners are written in. If you're only doing it for fun and learning, then just use an API of some blockchain explorer service. I'm not familiar with Bitcoin ones but an ETH equivalent would be something like Etherscan.

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Plus that's a 2014 block, so difficulty would be waaay lower compared to blocks nowadays. Try it on a recent block and see how fast it is.

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