Getblocktemplate, stratum & miners - endian-ness confusion

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I’ve been putting together a ‘stupid stratum server’ and playing on testnet as a way to learn more about how mining works.

I’m getting blocktemplates, sending work to the miner & getting solutions back - but zcashd rejects the assembled blocks with ‘invalid-solution’. I suspect I’m sending the miner garbage but cant confirm as there are too may other things I could be screwing up.

Any clues as to where I’m going wrong would be very useful :slight_smile:

Here’s what I’m doing :-

Sending ‘nonce1’ to the miner as big-endian & the number of bytes for the miner to use (total nonce size is 256-bit)

Sending the ‘target’ to the miner as read from getblocktemplate

Sending work to the miner as :-

  • work number
  • version (from getblocktemplate, converted to 32-bit little-endian)
  • previousblockhash (from getblocktemplate, reversed byte order)
  • merkleroot (calculated, reversed byte order)
  • finalsaplingroothash - (from getblocktemplate, reversed byte order)
  • time (current epoch, converted to 32-bit, reversed byte order)
  • bits (from getblocktemplate, reversed byte order)
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