📅 Original date posted:2011-10-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: Mike Hearn is developing custom software to efficiently create work for his pool, which will replace the use of bitcoind.
📝 Original message:On Monday, October 10, 2011 9:18:07 AM Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > > As I will no longer be using bitcoind for Eligius soon
> > >
> > > What will you be using instead? Isn't bitcoind a requirement for
> > > running
> >
> > a
> >
> > > pool?
> >
> > Writing some custom software designed to more efficiently create work.
> > To clarify, bitcoind will still serve the purpose of peering with
> > external nodes and picking out valid transactions to be accepted into
> > blocks; it just
> > won't be involved in the primary operations of the pool.
>
> Ah, I see. Sounds a bit like the direction Steve is going with poolserverj.
> So your custom software would handle incrementing the extraNonce,
> recalculating the merkle tree/root, and so on?
Yes, does that already. Hard part right now is implementing a stateless TCP/IP
"stack" so it can ignore DDoS sanely.
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