Bitcoin Mining using Elixir

COP5615 - Distributed Operating Systems Principles Project 1

Group Members : Shikha Mehta, Aniketh Sukhtankar (UF ID 7819 9584)

The goal of this project is to use Elixir and the actor model to build a good solution to the bitcoin mining problem that runs well on multi-core machines.

Size of the work unit

Sample Output

The following output was generated for command ./project1 4 '''elixir asukhtankarbweo0yjers 0000997c5f2ce5350e4f477f8a92241d13702ba5ceb0912d31cbb2b740e6bc83 asukhtankaro8jte89knr 00000931828e4579624bc583eee55c63818d209a173dfc77e8e63f69db6cdb17 asukhtankard6zc_v9l2t 00009c77fecec0f76a5907ef53759f727ba120792098498e1297987a179ec2d1 asukhtankar0z2c0nnyw5 000070e39a3f4d2b7554ed2dc2e6dc45621499d60cf9a0b5a5f18c86c07d2431 asukhtankaruhkmdgxs9_ 000078b0df1c217cdcb76c5969ca454ef85b5a429bbf5ba7174a060829238a17 '''

Running Time

Coin with most zeroes (7) :

asukhtankarfvvgdssixg 000000036115cffa23dfb4a961224471cea9bdeba989893125e848e3bee98a51

Largest number of working machines on which the code was run

The code was simultaneously run on 4 machines with one functioning as server and the other 3 as workers.

Installation

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

def deps do
  [
    {:bitcoinmining, "~> 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/bitcoinmining.