#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw(sha256);
use Device::SerialPort qw( :PARAM :STAT 0.07 );
use English;
use Carp;
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
use Data::Dumper;

my $miner = Device::SerialPort->new('/dev/ttyUSB0') or croak("Modem er
+ror $ERRNO");

$miner->baudrate(115_200);
$miner->parity('none');
$miner->databits(8);
$miner->stopbits(1);

# One cycle takes about 12 seconds and there seems no way to
# reset the thing. Hardware was designed by crypto-currency people,
# so naturally, it is decently fast, very inefficient and has a 
# very clunky, amateurish interface. 
#
# So, just wait the length of a cycle and empty
# the result bytes. 
initHardware();

my @times;

for(my $i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
    my $starttime = time;

    my $hash;
    my $loopcount = 0;
    while(1) {
        $loopcount++;
        my $rawdata = getRandomData();
        if(1) {
            # use random data and proper timestamps
            $hash = generateHash($rawdata, $starttime, $loopcount);
        } else {
            # Use fixed data for validation between multiple runs
            $hash = generateHash('BLA', $i, $loopcount);
        }
        if(defined($hash)) {
            last;
        }
    }

    my $endtime = time;
    my $elapsed = $endtime - $starttime;
    my $decodedhash = unpack("H*", $hash);
    print "Calculated result $i: $decodedhash in $elapsed seconds\n";
    push @times, $elapsed;
}

print "\n";
my $total;
foreach my $val (@times) {
    $total += $val;
}
$total /= scalar @times;
print "Took on average $total seconds to calculate a result.\n";
exit(0);

sub initHardware {
    # This "cleans out" the hardware by running one hash without any n
+ew hashing request.
    # This has the effect of making sure any active loop has time to f
+inish and we empty
    # out all result bytes from the buffer
    my $targettime = time + 13.5;

    print "Hardware initialization...\n";
    # Remove previous results from queue (is any)
    while(time < $targettime) {
        my ($count, $data) = $miner->read(1);
        if(!$count) {
            next;
        }
        print "! ", ord($data), "\n";
    }
    print "Ready for work!\n";

    return;
}


sub generateHash {
    my ($data, $timestamp, $nonce) = @_;

    my $request = buildRequest($data, $timestamp, $nonce);
    $miner->write($request);
    my @resultbytes;
    my $targettime = time + 13.5;

    # Remove previous results from queue (is any)
    while(1) {
        my ($count, $data) = $miner->read(1);
        if(!$count) {
            last;
        }
        print "! ", ord($data), "\n";
    }

    while(time < $targettime) {
        my ($count, $data) = $miner->read(1);
        if(!$count) {
            next;
        }
        my $bytecount = 0;
        #print "$bytecount > ", ord($data), "\n";
        $bytecount++;
        push @resultbytes, $data;
    }

    if(scalar @resultbytes < 4) {
        # No result;
        return;
    }

    my $result = '';
    for(1..4) {
        $result .= shift @resultbytes;
    }

    return $result;
}

sub buildRequest {
    my ($data, $timestamp, $nonce) = @_;

    my $source = sha256($data);

    # Add fill
    my $fill = "0" x 160;
    $fill = pack("B*", $fill);

    $source .= $fill;

    $source .= toBinary($timestamp); # timestamp

    # Difficulty target in "bits" encoding. No idea how that really wo
+rks, though.
    # If i didn't do something stupid, i just copied the one used to m
+ine the first bitcoin.
    $source .= toBitsBinary("1d00ffff");


    $source .= toBinary($nonce); # Nonce

    return $source;
}

sub toBinary {
    my ($val) = @_;

    if(1) {
        return pack('N', $val);
    } else {
        # "shuffle bytes by hand" version for easier experimentation
        # compared to fiddling with the fast but confusing pack/unpack
+ function
        my @bytes;

        for(1..4) {
            unshift @bytes, chr($val & 0xff);
            $val >>= 8;
        }

        return join('', @bytes);
    }
}

sub toBitsBinary {
    my ($val) = @_;

    my @parts = unpack"(A2)*", $val;
    my @bytes;

    foreach my $part (@parts) {
        push @bytes, chr(hex($part));
    }

    return join('', @bytes);
}

sub getRandomData {
    my @validchars = split//, 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789';
    my $token = 'XPD';
    for(1..500) {
        $token .= $validchars[rand @validchars];
    }
    $token .= 'VT';

    return $token;
}
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