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

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at bitpay.com
Mon Aug 19 20:34:36 UTC 2013


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Warren Togami Jr. <wtogami at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, Litecoin 0.8.x entirely removed the internal miner and we warned
> people that getwork will be removed in the next major version.  Pooler's CPU
> minerd which supports both sha256d and scrypt recently grew stratum support.
> Perhaps he could be convinced to add GBT support too, which would help this
> goal of completely removing the internal miner and getwork.

The internal miner is still actively used for testnet, here.

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Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/




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