"VB2010 BitCoin PP" Visual Basic program to mine bitcoins.

The program "VB bitcoin" is a program written in Visual Basic 2010 to demonstrate the mining of bitcoins. This program uses the concept of parallel programming. For a copy of "VB2010 BitCoin PP.exe" select: VB BitCoin PP.zip.
The program is based on 7 questions related to bitcoins. To study the seven questions select: BitCoins and Mining - 7 Questions
For more information goto: Implementation details

Purpose

Description

The Visual basic program program "VB Bitcoin" consits of 2 Forms (or displays):

Control Form. This form is used to Start the program and to modify the parameters.
Result Form. This form shows the results of the simulation.

Operation - Control Form

Operation of the program is done from the Control Form.

Picture 1A

Picture 1A Shows the initial display.
This dispay shows 3 Commands: Calc, End and Stop This depends about were you are during program execution.

The Calc command is used to start the simulation.
After selecting the Calc command the End changes into Stop.
The End command is used to terminate program exceution
The Stop command is used to stop the simulation. After selecting the Stop command the Stop command changes back into End this allows the user to modify certain parameters and to repeat the simulation.

Intially after starting program execution only the Calc, End commands are displayed.

The display also shows 3 additinal parameters: Msg, Auto and LowLimit

Msg paramater shows the message than you want to code.
Auto paramater defines if "Auto Mode" is On or Off.

Operation - Monitor Form

Picture 1B

Operation - Display Form

Picture 1B

Picture 1B Shows the Result display. Each line shows the data of one block.
The first line shows the results of block #1. The second line block #2. The third line of block #3. Etc.
Internally each block is linked to its previous and next block. As such block #2 has a link to block #1 and block #3. Block #3 is linked to block #2 and block #4 etc.
All this linked block form a chain. This is the blockchain.

Technical Information

The name of the actual code that is used in the program is called SHA256. For more detail about SHA256 read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
Specific the paragraph Pseudocode is used as the basis for the program. Select: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Pseudocode

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Created: 15 Februari 2018

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