Cloud Nonce Discovery

Intro

This repository details the use of horizontal scale computing via Amazon Web Services to discover ‘golden nonces’ as known in the blockchain proof of work concept.

Prerequisites

• Python ≥ 2.7
• AWS CLI
• Keypair

Build

python brute_upload.py

Parameters

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    description=“Run blockchain with difficulty D”,
    formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter,
)
parser.add_argument(
    “—-log”,
    default=False,
    help=“If we should log files in python script”,
)

parser.add_argument(
    “-—difficulty”,
    default=1,
    type=int,
    help=“Difficulty of nonce discovery”,
)

parser.add_argument(
    “-—time-limit”,
    default=1,
    type=float,
    help=“Maximum time blockchain will run for in ms”,
)

parser.add_argument(
    “—-vms”,
    default=1,
    type=int,
    help="Number of virtual machines to spawn",
)

parser.add_argument(
    "--confidence",
    default=1,
    type=float,
    help="Confidence value",
)