📅 Original date posted:2013-08-19
📝 Original message:On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Frank F <frankf44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If there are technical problems with getwork, maybe they should be addressed
> and fixed instead of outright abandoned.
They have been, resulting in a replacement called "getblocktemplate"
which (presumably) almost everyone talking to bitcoin(d|-qt) has been
using for a long time.
I think removing the ability to mine in the stock package would be
regrettable, but to be honest we already don't have it for the
mainnet. I think we should do as Jeff suggests and remove getwork. But
I think we should also package along a proper getblocktemplate miner
to remove any doubt that we're providing a full network node here. (I
note that the choice of miner is also easy: Regardless of people's
preferences which way or another, AFAIK only luke's bfgminer stuff can
mine directly against bitcoin getblocktemplate with no pool in the
middle. It also supports a huge variety of hardware, and a superset
of our target platforms)
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 15:06:20
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