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Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-10-10 🗒️ Summary of this message: A pool operator ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-10-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: A pool operator will no longer use bitcoind for Eligius and will instead use custom software designed to efficiently create work.
📝 Original message:>
> > > 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?
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