diff --git a/pow-csharp/onionrpow-cli/Program.cs b/pow-csharp/onionrpow-cli/Program.cs
index 770b594a..9529fdda 100644
--- a/pow-csharp/onionrpow-cli/Program.cs
+++ b/pow-csharp/onionrpow-cli/Program.cs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ namespace onionrpow_cli
                     //stdout.Write(buffer, 0, bytes);
                     data.AddRange(buffer);
                 }
-                onionrpow.OnionrPow.compute(data.ToArray(), 3);
+                onionrpow.OnionrPow.compute(data.ToArray(), 1);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/pow-csharp/onionrpow/OnionrPow.cs b/pow-csharp/onionrpow/OnionrPow.cs
index 44ed14be..4dd6b8a2 100644
--- a/pow-csharp/onionrpow/OnionrPow.cs
+++ b/pow-csharp/onionrpow/OnionrPow.cs
@@ -1,55 +1,59 @@
 using System;
 using System.Text;
-using SHA3;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using SHA3;
 
 namespace onionrpow
 {
+
+    public class Meta{
+        public string ch { get; set; }
+        public string type { get; set; }
+    }
+
+    public class Block{
+        public string meta { get; set; }
+        public string sig { get; set; }
+        public string signer { get; set; }
+        public int time;
+
+        private List<byte> data;
+
+        public void setData(List<byte> blockData){
+            this.data = blockData;
+        }
+
+    }
     public class OnionrPow
     {
         public static void compute(byte[] data, int difficulty){
             using (var shaAlg = SHA3.Net.Sha3.Sha3256())
             {
-                // Replace beginning json with counter
+                string stringData = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);
+                bool found = false;
+                var justData = new List<byte>();
+                var metadataJson = new List<byte>();
                 int counter = 0;
-                var copy = new List<byte>();
-
-                foreach(byte co in data){
-                    if (counter < 1){
-                        counter += 1;
-                        continue;
-                        //copy.Add(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{\"pow\": "))
+                foreach(char c in stringData){
+                    if (found){
+                        justData.Add((byte) c);
+                    }
+                    else if (c == '\n'){
+                        for (int i = 0; i < counter + 1; i++){
+                            metadataJson.Add(data[i]);
+                        }
+                        found = true;
+                    }
+                    else{
+                        //Console.WriteLine(c.ToString());
                     }
                     counter += 1;
-                    copy.Add(co);
                 }
-                int c = 0;
-                var copy2 = new List<byte>();
-                while (true){
-                    toploop:
-                    c += 1;
-                    var num = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{\"pow\": " + c.ToString() + ",");
-                    copy2.Clear();
-                    copy2.AddRange(num);
-                    copy2.AddRange(copy);
-                    var hash = shaAlg.ComputeHash(copy2.ToArray());
+                Block block = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Block>(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(metadataJson.ToArray()));
+                block.setData(justData);
 
-                    int counter2 = 0;
-                    foreach(byte one in hash){
-                        if ((int) one != 0){
-                            goto toploop;
-                        }
-                        counter2 += 1;
-                        if (counter2 == difficulty){
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                    Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(copy2.ToArray()));
-                    Console.WriteLine(BitConverter.ToString(hash));
-                    Console.WriteLine(c);
-                    break;
-               }
             }
         }
         //b'{"meta":"{\\"ch\\":\\"global\\",\\"type\\":\\"brd\\"}","sig":"pR4qmKGGCdnyNyZRlhGfF9GC7bONCsEnY04lTfiVuTHexPJypOqmxe9iyDQQqdR+PB2gwWuNqGMs5O8\\/S\\/hsCA==","signer":"UO74AP5LGQFI7EJTN6NAVINIPU2XO2KA7CAS6KSWGWAY5XIB5SUA====","time":1600542238,"pow":300182}\nxcvxcvvxcxcv'
diff --git a/pow-csharp/onionrpow/onionrpow.csproj b/pow-csharp/onionrpow/onionrpow.csproj
index 22506a45..9b0aaa20 100644
--- a/pow-csharp/onionrpow/onionrpow.csproj
+++ b/pow-csharp/onionrpow/onionrpow.csproj
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.3" />
     <PackageReference Include="SHA3.Net" Version="1.2.3" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
diff --git a/pow-csharp/test.py b/pow-csharp/test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73315bd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pow-csharp/test.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+print('{"meta":"{\\"ch\\":\\"global\\",\\"type\\":\\"brd\\"}","sig":"pR4qmKGGCdnyNyZRlhGfF9GC7bONCsEnY04lTfiVuTHexPJypOqmxe9iyDQQqdR+PB2gwWuNqGMs5O8\\/S\\/hsCA==","signer":"UO74AP5LGQFI7EJTN6NAVINIPU2XO2KA7CAS6KSWGWAY5XIB5SUA====","time":1600542238,"pow":300182}\nxcvxcvvxcxcv')