Ethereum uses K ECCAK -25 6 instead of the standardized NIST SHA-3 .

The results produced by K ECCAK -25 6 are identical to SHA-3 .

Mining involves the following steps:

Hardware setup

On your system download geth

U nzip geth

On your system start the command prompt

cd to root directory

U sing geth account new, create a geth account

Press the enter button and when asked to enter a password, create the

password

U sing geth—

rpc connect to Ethereum

Download and install the mining software

Go to the root directory—

start the command prompt

Navigate to Etherminer directory

cd into Ethereum folder

cd into release folder

Set up your Ethereum wallet

GPU mining—

ethminer—

G 17 CPU mining ethminer

The block structure

The header that is consisted of a block, and the information contained in it

is identified in the block as also it is linked to the rest of the chain, together

with a body of transactions is included in the block structure.

Block metadata sample values

The block metadata sample values are shown in the following figure: