From: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt•me>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:15:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376943308.27037.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0MnnWw=qiYC0nJcY=BdTDcAjGtraJ+kazoG7_bHW-HBtw@mail.gmail.com>
ACK, I see no reason to leave broken things in that a) arent necessary
and b) no one has the developer resources to fix.
Matt
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 12:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Pull request https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2905 proposes to
> remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork
>
> On mainnet, almost everybody uses a pool (and therefore, not "getwork"
> directly to bitcoind). Those few who solo mine use a pool server to
> talk to bitcoind via "getblocktemplate" or other means. Tests show
> that attempts to solo mine on mainnet via "getwork" lead to delays and
> problems.
>
> On testnet, getwork has a better chance of continuing to work.
> Nevertheless, the same tools (open source pool servers or p2pool) are
> available for testnet, obviating the continued need to support
> getwork.
>
> However, at one time, getwork to bitcoind was widely used. I wanted
> to poke the audience, to gauge response to removing "getwork." If a
> driving use case remains of which we're unaware, speak up, please. We
> don't want to break anybody needlessly.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 16:27 Jeff Garzik
2013-08-19 20:09 ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:13 ` Luke-Jr
2013-08-19 20:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-19 20:16 ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:16 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 20:18 ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:23 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 20:33 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-08-19 20:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-08-19 23:02 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-08-19 23:30 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-08-19 20:15 ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2013-08-19 20:22 Goss, Brian C., M.D.
2013-08-19 21:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 22:49 ` Jorge Timón
[not found] <mailman.167053.1376954386.4583.bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
2013-08-21 21:24 ` Ron
2013-08-21 21:39 ` rob.golding
2013-08-22 9:36 ` Maciej Trebacz
2013-08-22 13:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-08-22 13:33 ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-22 15:30 ` Wladimir
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