def _pool_worker(nonce, initialHash, target, pool_size): import hashlib from struct import unpack, pack trialValue = 99999999999999999999 while trialValue > target: nonce += pool_size trialValue, = unpack('>Q',hashlib.sha512(hashlib.sha512(pack('>Q',nonce) + initialHash).digest()).digest()[0:8]) return [trialValue, nonce] def run(target, initialHash): from multiprocessing import Pool, cpu_count import time try: pool_size = cpu_count() except: pool_size = 4 pool = Pool(processes=pool_size) result = [] for i in range(pool_size): result.append(pool.apply_async(_pool_worker, args = (i, initialHash, target, pool_size))) while True: for i in range(pool_size): if result[i].ready(): result = result[i].get() pool.terminate() return result[0], result[1] time.sleep(1)