[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind

[Frank F]

This sounds like an ideal compromise.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>



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